...out of the paradise of comedy into the purgatory of Shakespearean time, where we incessantly watch the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of...main, Increasing store with loss, and loss with store. Contemplation of "such interchange of state, / Or state itself confounded to decay" (Sonnet 64) does...

...buried age; When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed, And brass eternal slave to mortal rage; WOMAN. When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on...kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the watery main, Increasing store with loss and loss with store: MAN. When I have seen such interchange...

...Eugene Turner Center for Wetland Resources Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803 "When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage...kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the watery main, Increasing store with loss and loss with store; When I have seen such interchange of state,...

...Eugene Turner Center for Wetland Resources Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803 "When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore. And the rum soil win of the watery main, Increasing store with loss and loss with store; When I have seen such...

...read as describing the wearing confrontation of hungry suitors with those wielding the powers of gift: When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on...kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the watery main, Increasing store with loss, and loss with store, When I have seen such interchange of...

...brass eternal slave to mortal rage. When I have seen the hungry Ocean gain 5 Advantage on the tyngdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the wat'ry...interchange of state, Or state itself confounded, to decay, 10 Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate That Time will come and ta\e my love away. This thought is...

...hand defaced The rich proud cost of outworn buried age, When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed, And brass eternal slave to mortal rage; When I have...kingdom of the shore And the firm soil win of the watery main, Increasing store with loss and loss with store ... In the midst of this black and sinister...

...hand defaced The rich proud cost of outworn buried age; When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed, And brass eternal slave to mortal rage; When I have...kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the watery main, Increasing store with loss, and loss with store; When I have seen such interchange of...

...buried age, When sometime-lofty towers I see down razed, And brass eternal slave to mortal rage; 5 When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on...store; When I have seen such interchange of state, 10 Or state itself confounded to decay, Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate: That time will come and...

...hand defaced The rich proud cost of outworn buried age, When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed, And brass eternal slave to mortal rage; When I have...ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. (64) Time in the Sonnets is a devourer, a thief, a merciless legal prosecutor, a relentless creditor...