...decease. Yet this abundant issue seemed to me 10 But hope of orphans, and unfathered fruit, For summer and his pleasures wait on thee, And thou away, the very...That leaves look pale, dreading the winter's near. From you I have been absent in the spring, When proud-pied April, dressed in all his trim, Hath put...

...decease. Yet this abundant issue seemed to me But hope of orphans, and unfathered fruit; For summer and his pleasures wait on thee, And thou away, the very birds are mute. (5-12) No longer "O'ercharged with burthen of mine own love's might" (23.8), the speaker views the...

...speaker's anguish and desolation. In Sonnet 98 Shakespeare brilliantly adapts this seasonal convention: From you have I been absent in the spring When proud-pied April, dressed in all his trim, Hath put a spirit of youth in everything, That heavy Saturn laughed and leapt...

...decrease: Yet this abundant issue seemed to me But hope of orphans, and unfathered fruit, For summer and his pleasures wait on thee, And thou away, the very...That leaves look pale, dreading the winter's near. Sonnet 97 From you have I been absent in the spring, When proud-pied April (dressed in all his trim)...

...abondam issue seemed to me But hope of orphans and unfathered fruit, For summer and his pleasures watt on thee, And thou away, the very birds are mute. Or if they stng, 'tis with so doll a cheer That leaves look pale, dreading the wimer's near. 4 hareness] o; Bacrenness...

...summer's day' (18). In his absence 'teeming autumn', with all its 'increase', is a mockery: For summer and his pleasures wait on thee, And, thou away, the very birds are mute. (97) than winter (98). Thinking of their three years' acquaintance, the poet writes: Three winters...

...decease. Yet this abundant issue seemed to me But hope of orphans and unfathered fruit; For summer and his pleasures wait on thee, And, thou away, the very birds are mute; - 119Or, if they sing, 'tis with so dull a cheer, That leaves look pale, dreading the winter's near....

...hope of orphans, and unfathered fruit; AND For summer and his pleasures wait on thee, FAREWELLS 345 And, thou away, the very birds are mute; Or if they...That leaves look pale, dreading the winter's near. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ENGLISH (1564-1616) Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part Since there's...

...fruit; For summer and his pleasures watt on thee, And, thou away, the very birds are mute; Or, ifthey sing, 'tis with so dull a cheer That leaves look pale, dreading the winter's near. ¡C--OMO un invierno fue la ausencia mía de ti, que eres placer del año que huye! ¡Qué helores...

...decease: Yet this abundant issue seem'd to me But hope of orphans and unfather'd fruit; For summer and his pleasures wait on thee, And, thou away, the very...That leaves look pale, dreading the winter's near. This, if not one of Shakespeare's very finest sonnets, is certainly one of his most memorable, and...