...player. How barren and profitless a thing, he says, is this beauty of yours if it be not used:When forty winters shall besiege thy brow And dig deep...in thy beauty's field, Thy youth's proud livery, so gazed on now, Will be a tatter'd weed, of small worth held: Then being ask'd where all thy beauty lies,...

...player. How barren and profitless a thing, he says, is this beauty of yours if it be not used:When forty winters shall besiege thy brow And dig deep...in thy beauty's field, Thy youth's proud livery, so gazed on now, Will be a tatter'd weed, of small worth held: Then being ask'd where all thy beauty lies,...

...cruel, Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament, And only herald to the gaudy spring, II9 Within thine own bud buriest thy content, And, tender churl,...be, To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee. n. When forty winters shall besiege thy brow, And dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field, Thy youth's...

...too cruel. Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament And only herald to the gaudy spring, Within thine own bud buriest thy content, And, tender churl,...be, To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee. The poem takes the conventional praise of chaste beauty, and turns it on its head - the young man's...

...(1890-1976), (Murder on the Links) Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies, - John Donne (1573-1631) AVhen forty winters shall besiege thy brow, And dig deep...proud livery, so gaz'd on now, Will be a tatter'd weed1 of small worth held. - Shakespeare, Sonnet 2 A thing of beauty is a joy forever: Its loveliness...

...are the physical changes of aging that begin to occur around this time. A Shakespeare sonnet warns: "When forty winters shall besiege thy brow / And dig...thy beauty's field, / Thy youth's proud livery, so gazed on now, / Will be a tottered weed of small worth held . . . "17 As noted earlier, Nature seems...