 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame. What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a live-long monument. For whilst to th'shame of slow-endeavoring art, Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart Hath from... | |
 | William Riley Parker - 1996 - 708 pages
...thou our fancy of itself bereaving Dost make us marble with too much conceiving, And so sepfllchred in such pomp dost lie That kings for such a tomb would wish to die. This, whether or not it owes anything to John Donne (who died on 31 March 1631), is a passage that... | |
 | Peter C. Herman - 1996 - 294 pages
...thou our fancy of itself bereaving, Dost make us Marble with too much conceiving; And so Sepulchr'd in such pomp dost lie, That Kings for such a Tomb would wish to die. Milton opposes Shakespeare's fluid ease in composition with the stasis he induces in his listeners.... | |
 | William Gerber - 1998 - 148 pages
...hid Under a Star-y pointing Pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of Fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name! Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thy self a live-long Monument.... And so Sepulcher'd in such pomp dost lie That Kings for such a Tomb... | |
 | Catherine Maxwell - 2001 - 292 pages
...hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a live-long monument. For whilst to the shame of slow-endeavouring art. Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart Hath from... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1012 pages
...hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid?0 Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a live-long monument. For whilst to th' shame of slow-endeavouring art, Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart0 10 Hath... | |
 | Bruce Haley - 2003 - 322 pages
...thou our fancy of itself bereaving,/ Dost make us Marble with too much conceiving;/ And so Sepulcher'd in such pomp dost lie,/ That Kings for such a Tomb would wish to die." Punning on "stone'V'astonishment," Milton's fancy grieves not over Shakespeare's death but over its... | |
 | Sharon Achinstein - 2003 - 330 pages
...as a kind of monument - think of Herrick's "His Poetry His Pillar" or Milton's sonnet on Shakespeare ("Thou in our wonder and astonishment/ Hast built thyself a livelong Monument"); the poetic inscriptions on the stones of tombs rework that essential link between poetry and commemoration.... | |
 | Patrick J. Keane - 2005 - 575 pages
...pyramid to ensepulchre him since (in what are, unfortunately, the least vigorous lines in the poem), "Thou in our wonder and astonishment / Hast built thyself a livelong monument" (F 2:346). Derived from Wordsworth or not, Emersonian "benefactors" are those who, having been thankful... | |
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What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones, The labour of an age in piled stones ? Or that his hallowed relics should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid ? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name... 
