...74). But in place of the poet's sarcasm, which cautions against mourning him, "Lest the wise world look into your moan, / And mock you with me after I am gone" (sonnet 72), Helena employs an irony all her own. "He is too good and fair for death and me." That...

...you so, That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, If thinking on me then should make you woe. O, if, I say, you look upon this verse When I perhaps...into your moan, And mock you with me after I am gone. 72 O, lest the world should task you to recite What merit lived in me, that you should love, After...

...you so That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot If thinking on me then should make you woe. O, if, I say, you look upon this verse When I, perhaps,...into your moan And mock you with me after I am gone. 71 That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those...

...would be forgot If thinking on me then should make you woe. O, if, I say, you look upon this verse 10 When I perhaps compounded am with clay, Do not so...into your moan And mock you with me after I am gone. O, lest the world should task you to recite What merit lived in me that you should love, After my death,...

...you so, That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot If thinking on me then should make you woe O, if I say you look upon this verse When I perhaps compounded...into your moan And mock you with me after I am gone.' Yours truly. Dhruva It was past midnight. Arundhuti must have read the letter for the umpteenth time....

...you so, That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, If thinking on me then should make you woe. O, if, I say, you look upon this verse When I perhaps...into your moan, And mock you with me after I am gone. -William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Sunset on the Spire All that I dream By day or night Lives in that...

...along with advice to terminate it Then in the couplet the tone changes, taking on a needling note: Lest the wise world should look into your moan, And mock you with me after I am gone. (13-14) The "wise world" refers to the cynical, "knowing" public apt to scorn the youth for bemoaning...

...you so, That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot If thinking on me then should make you woe. 0 if, I say, you look upon this verse When I perhaps...into your moan, And mock you with me after I am gone. — William Shakespeare This next poem uses the metaphor of apple-picking to "disguise" it as a death...

...make you woe. O, if, I say, you look upon this verse 10 When I, perhaps, compounded am with clay, 1 1 Do not so much as my poor name rehearse, But let your...decay, Lest the wise world should look into your moan 14 And mock you with me after I am gone. 8 make . . . woe cause you grief 1 1 rehearse repeat 14 with...

...If thinking on me then should make you woe. O, if 1I say1 you look upon this verse When I 1perhapsl compounded am with clay, Do not so much as my poor...should look into your moan And mock you with me after l am gone. One way of reading this is to imagine that the poem was written from oblivion in the face...