 | William Shakespeare - 2002 - 244 ページ
...after their lords' decrease: Yet this abundant issue seemed to me But hope of orphans, and unfathered fruit, For summer and his pleasures wait on thee,...That leaves look pale, dreading the winter's near. Sonnet 97 From you have I been absent in the spring, When proud-pied April (dressed in all his trim)... | |
 | G. Wilson Knight - 2002 - 256 ページ
...perfect as 'a summer's day' (18). In his absence 'teeming autumn', with all its 'increase', is a mockery: For summer and his pleasures wait on thee, And, thou away, the very birds are mute. (97) than winter (98). Thinking of their three years' acquaintance, the poet writes: Three winters... | |
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Like widow'd wombs after their lords' decease: Yet this abundant issue seem'd to me But hope of orphans, and unfather'd fruit; For summer and his pleasures wait on thee, And, thou away, the very birds are mute: Or, if they sing, 'tis with so dull a cheer,... 
