Shakespeare’s greatest song appears in his last major play, The Tempest, a sudden, oracular lyric, hauntingly strange: Full fathom five thy father lies. Of his bones are coral made. Those are pearls that were his eyes. Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea change Into something rich and strange.
March 22, 2024
March 22, 2024
March 22, 2024
Shakespeare’s greatest song appears in his last major play, The Tempest, a sudden, oracular lyric, hauntingly strange: Full fathom five thy father lies. Of his bones are coral made. Those are pearls that were his eyes. Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea change Into something rich and strange.