Sonnet 12 bristly beard," "violet past prime," and "sable curls all silver'd o'er with white." One last image to take note of is the fact that the only way to defy time is by creating new virtues and beauties. And to do this, Shakespeare tells the young man, is by creating descendants. This fact is shown in the volta, the last two lines of the sonnet, when Shakespeare says, "And nothing 'gainst time's scythe can make defence, / Save breed to brave him when he takes thee hence." Sonnet 12 follows the structure of a typical Shakespearean sonnet. It consists of 14
Hombres (poetry) Hombres (poetry) Hombres is a collection of erotic poetry by Paul Verlaine written sometime between 1887 and 1891, with the exception of "Dizain ingénue" and "Le Sonnet du trou du cul". The collection was originally hand-written and distributed by Verlaine, himself. "Hombres" includes "The Sonnet to an Asshole" ("Le Sonnet du trou du cul"), an erotic poem co-written by Arthur Rimbaud in 1871. "Hombres" is the third and final collection of poetry that comprises Verlaine’s Erotic Trilogy, after "Les Amies" and "Femmes". On March 19, 1892, Verlaine sold a copy of "Hombres" to Editor Léon Vanier that he had hand