...around Chang'an. Du Fu's faithful, disconsolate nostalgia recalls the tone of Shakespeare's sonnet 97: How like a winter hath my absence been From thee,...what dark days seen! What old December's bareness every where! WINTER SOLSTICE Year after year on solstice day, ever the wanderer; Swift and sudden,...

...POPE 11688-1 744), English satirical poet. Leller, 14 Dec. 1725, to pocl and author (onathan Swifi. 13 US engineer. The Economic Theory of the Location...Englishman, confronted by something abnormal will WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (15М-16Ш. English dramatist, poet. Sonne/ 97. 14 When delicate and feeling souls...

...thy state! But do not so; I love thee in such sort, As thou being mine, mine is thy good report. 97 How like a winter hath my absence been From thee,...what dark days seen! What old December's bareness every where! And yet this time removed was summer's time; The teeming autumn, big with rich increase,...

...For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds. 94 How like a winter hath my absence been From thee,...December's bareness everywhere! And yet this time removed was summer's time, The teeming autumn, big with rich increase, Bearing the wanton burden of...

...Drown - a pun on drawing a picture, and following on necessarily, as does a carriage drawn by a horse. How like a winter hath my absence been From thee,...days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere! 5 And yet this time removed was summer's time, And teeming autumn big with rich increase, Bearing the...

...LAMB, (1775-1834) British essayist, critic. Essays of Elia, "A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig" (1820-23). How like a winter hath my absence been From thee,...days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere! Absurdity 1 The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only. THOMAS...

...things turn sourest by their deeds; Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds. 10557 Sonnet 97 puissant natlon rousing herself like a strong man after 10558 Sonnet 106 When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions of the fairest wights. 10559...

...teeming fertility of the season, now distanced from the poet's production And yet this time removed was summer's time, The teeming autumn big with rich increase, Bearing the wanton burthen of the prime, Like widowed wombs after their lords' decease. Yet this abundant issue seemed...

...famously at his best as in Sonnet 18 ('Shall I compare thee') or writes, with less irony and more passion: How like a winter hath my absence been From thee,...days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere! (Sonnet 97) Or he reaches pathos in an opening line, 'From you have I been absent in the spring', and...

...Citizen — Richard III II. in Short summers lightly have a forward spring. Richard— Richard III III.i How like a winter hath my absence been From thee,...December's bareness everywhere! And yet this time removed was summer's time, The teeming autumn big with rich increase, Bearing the wanton burthen of...