...Philomel bccometh dumb; The rest complain of cares to come. The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter reckoning yields; A honey tongue,...heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall. Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies, Soon break, soon wither,...

...Philomel becometh dumb ; And all complain of cares to come. The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter reckoning yields : A honey tongue,...heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall. In The Patzionali. PiJffrintt and Sonnets to sundry notu nf Masiekt. by William Shakespeare, London,...

...And all complain of cares to come. The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter reekoning yields : A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall. In The Passionate Pilgrimt and Sonnets to sundry notei of Musicke, by William Shakespeare, London,...

...Philomel becometh dumb; The rest complains of cares to come. The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward Winter reckoning yields: A honey tongue,...heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall. Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies, Soon break, soon wither...

...forcefully to reflect this duplicity than those lines I have already quoted from Ralegh's "Nymph's Reply": "A honey tongue, a heart of gall, / Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall." The mingling of the move to identity with the move to differentiation among fancy and fall, spring...

...Philomel becometh dumb; The rest complains of cares to come. The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter reckoning yields; A honey tongue,...heart of gall Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall. Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies, Soon break, soon wither,...

...Philomel becometh dumb; The rest complain of cares to come. The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter reckoning yields: A honey tongue,...heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall. Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies Soon break, soon wither,...

...complains of cares to come. The flowers do fade, and wanton fields, To wayward winter reckoning yields; 10 A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall. Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses. Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies Soon break, soon wither,...

...deceptively good in spring can become loathsome in the falL The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter reckoning yields, A honey tongue,...heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's falL The grammatical curiosity in stanza three, where "fields" (a plural subject) is associated with "yields"...

...Philomel becometh dumb; The rest complains of cares to come. The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward Winter reckoning yields: A honey tongue,...heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall. Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap, thy kittle, and thy posies, Soon break, soon wither—...