Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LET ME LIVE, FR. MEASURE FOR MEASURE, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PRIVILEGE OF BEING by ROBERT HASS SEAWATER STIFFENS CLOTH by JANE HIRSHFIELD SAYING YES TO LIVING by DAVID IGNATOW THE WORLD IS SO DIFFICULT TO GIVE UP by DAVID IGNATOW AIRY NOTHINGS. FR. THE TEMPEST by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE APRIL, FR. LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ARIEL'S SONG (1) [OR, DIRGE] [OR, A SEA DIRGE]. FR. THE TEMPEST by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE |
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