...sonnet is one of the many time-conscious sonnets in the middle of Shakespeare's sequence, and it begins: "Being your slave, what should I do but tend / Upon the hours and times of your desire." Even before we hear Bench's echoing voice, we hear the ticking of an old clock. Unlike the voice-overs...

...sonnet with its translations by the Russian poets V. Brjusov and S. Marsak (cf. Barxudarov 1975, 151): Being your slave. what should I do but tend Upon the hours and times of your desire? l have no precious time at all to spend. Not services to do, till you require. "Tvoj vernyj rab, ja...

...beloved — or perhaps because he is slyly criticizing him — Shakespeare plays at utter subservience: Being your slave, what should I do but tend Upon the hours and times of your desire? (571-2) And he stages too his intense awareness of the social stigma that attaches to his profession:...

...our undivided loves are one' (sonnet 36). Further, the frustration and resentment was me and Derek - 'Being your slave, what should I do but tend / Upon the hours and times of your desire?' (sonnet 57). The critical establishment tried to evade such topics: the sonnets were technical exercises,...

...vuelve son más venturosos. Como el invierno, lleno de pesares, más deseado y raro hace al estío. BEING your slave, what should I do but tend Upon the hours and times ofyour desire? I have no precious time at all to spend, Nor services to do, tillyou require. Nor dare...

...likeness and their unlikeness, it is especially illuminating to compare with these poems of Donne's. 57 Being your slave, what should I do but tend Upon the...sovereign, watch the clock for you, Nor think the bitterness of absence sour When you have bid your servant once adieu; Nor dare I question with my jealous...

...death which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose." Lights down. SONNET 57 BARD: "Being your slave what should I do but tend Upon the...all to spend; Nor services to do, till you require." Lights up to FIONA, sitting, looking very anxious, with her cell phone in her lap. The phone rings;...

...Shakespeare's Sonnet #57 [Redone by Bruce Hamilton] Since I'm your slave what should I do but tend on all the hours and times of your desire? I have no precious...services to do, till you require. Nor dare I chide each seemingly vast hour while I forever watch the clock for you • — nor think the bitterness of...

...leaded window of an Elizabethan house into a garden, while we hear the first twelve lines of sonnet 57 ('Being your slave, what should I do but tend / Upon the hours and times of your desire'). This seems to establish him as the watcher, masochistically in thrall to the beauty of the other man,...

...love is by no means more "intellectual" than George's. See for instance sonnet LVII, which starts: Being your slave what should I do but tend Upon the hours and times of your desire? In George's translation: Ich bin dein sklave der nur auf die stunden Und zeiten deiner lust zu harren...