...harsh or hard consonants. Consider the following quatrains from one of Shakespeare's wonderful sonnets: Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea...Whose action is no stronger than a flower? O how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable...

...him to it. It issues in some of the most memorable descriptions of mutability and loss ever written: Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,...action is no stronger than a flower? O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wrackful siege of batt'ring days, When rocks impregnable...

...cautiously titled "Toward Bethlehem," and its epigraph from Shakespeare's Sonnet LXV is about fragility: How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower? Even the ending paragraph quoted above hovers over the material details of disembarkation and customs,...

...conversation about Mapplethorpe's work in the United States, they remind us of a couplet from Shakespeare: "How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, / Whose action is no stronger than a flower?" Those razor-sharp petals cut through a tough knot in the theory-laden art of our time. Purity in late-twentieth-century...

...an entirely different nature from the force of power. The answer to Shakespeare's anguished question Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,...a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower? (65) is that beauty is more powerful than power, because beauty renews and propagates itself unendingly,...

...keiner! Nie! Es sei denn, dies trifft zu: Aus meiner Tinte Schwarz, draus leuchtest du. 65 Shakespeare: Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,...a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower? Oh how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wrackful siege of battering days, When rocks...

...state greatness 10 confounded to devastated to a point of 12 love beloved 14 to have for having 65 1 Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'ersways their power, 3 How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, 4 Whose action is no stronger than a flower? O, how...

...fears to lose. (Sonnet LXIV) The 'hungry ocean'; a usual thought. So is the word 'rage'. Or again, Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,...action is no stronger than a flower ? O how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable...

...unswept stone besmear'd with sluttish time. Time becomes a symbol, almost a synonym, for mortality : Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,...action is no stronger than a flower ? O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wrackful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable...

...beauty is immortalized in art. Now what would be a good poem to illustrate that? Sonnet 65 will do: Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,...action is no stronger than a flower? O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wrackful siege of batt'ririg days, When rocks impregnable...