...thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose. Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality...stronger than a flower ? O, how shall summer's honey breatli hold out Against the wrackful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout,...

...thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose. Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality...beauty hold a plea. Whose action is no stronger than a Mower ? O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wrackf'ul siege of battering days,...

...now can Athens be the world's one city which has secure foundations: the one city which can surely " Hold out Against the wreckful siege of battering days,...stout ~Nor gates of steel so strong but Time decays." For she will bo forever the sacred city of our souls, and "Shall live Where breath most breathes, even...

...to lose LXV. IK. Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'erswavs their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold...stronger than a flower? O ! how shall summer's honey hrenth hold out Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout,...

...to lose LXV. 114. Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'erswavs their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold...Whose action is no stronger than a flower? O ! how ghall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable...

...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...

...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,...

...than a flower? O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wrackful siege of batt'ring days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong but Time decays? (Sonnet 65) The most obvious reason why the youth is urged to reproduce is in order to perpetuate himself....

...beautiful, and individuated they are, the more fragile, the more definitively they die: Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality...a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower? (65) Shakespeare's answers to this question anticipate the new science of the late twentieth century,...

...and orchestras O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wrackful siege of batt'ring days When rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays? William Shakespeare, 'Sonnet No. 65'. One of the quirks of human mortality is that we live our lives...