Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LET ME LIVE, FR. MEASURE FOR MEASURE, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE



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First Line: What saies my brother?
Last Line: To what we feare of death.
Variant Title(s): Life And Death
Subject(s): Life


Isabella What saies my brother>
Claudio Death is a fearefull thing.
Isabella And shamed life, a hatefull.
Claudio Ay, but to die, and go we know not where,
To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot,
This sensible warme motion, to become
A kneaded clod; And the delightful spirit
To bath in fierie floods, or reside
In thrilling Region of thicke-ribbed Ice,
To be imprison'd in the viewlesse windes
And blowne with restlesse violence round about
The pendant world: or to be worse than worst
Of those that lawlesse and incertaine thought
Imagine howling, 'tis too horrible.
The weariest, and most loathed worldly life
That Age, Ache, penury, and imprisonment
Can lay on nature, is a Paradise
To what we feare of death.






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