Those howers that with gentle worke did frame, Shakespeare: Summary & Analysis
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Sonnet 5: "Those howers that with gentle worke did frame" is a Shakespearean sonnet that explores the transient nature of beauty and the effects of time on physical appearances. The speaker reflects on how time can transform the beauty of summer into the desolation of winter, causing even the most beautiful things to decay. The poem emphasizes the inevitable passage of time and its impact on the perception of beauty. Sonnet 5: "Those howers that with gentle worke did frame" Original Text Those hours, that with gentle work did frame The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell, Will play the tyrants to the very same And that unfair which fairly doth excel; For never-resting time leads summer on To hideous winter and confounds him there; Sap check’d with frost and lusty leaves quite gone, Beauty o’ersnow’d and bareness every where; Then, were not summer’s distillation left A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass, Beauty’s effect with beauty were bereft, Nor it nor no remembrance what…