Now, if thou wouldst, when all have given him over, From death to life thou might'st him yet recover.
He doesn't quite hit that note quite as well in any other sonnet, but it's one of the truly excellent poems of our language -- and deep in that dramatic immediacy.
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Date: 20 March 2006 02:47 am (UTC)From death to life thou might'st him yet recover.
He doesn't quite hit that note quite as well in any other sonnet, but it's one of the truly excellent poems of our language -- and deep in that dramatic immediacy.
Have you read any of his other works?
---L.