The Sonnets
Sonnet 142
by William Shakespeare
Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate
Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate
As fast as thou shalt wane so fast thou grow’st
Music to hear, why hear’st thou music sadly?
Where art thou Muse that thou forget’st so long
In loving thee thou know’st I am forsworn
Lo as a careful huswife runs to catch
Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear
Cupid laid by his brand and fell asleep
The author dedicates the novel to a friend and, through poetry, tells the reader to read the book.
"Whose are the little beds," I asked
There came a day at summer's full
A woman’s face with nature’s own hand painted
When most I wink then do mine eyes best see
Devouring Time blunt thou the lion’s paws
There is a flower that bees prefer
THE poet asks, and Phillis can't refuse
The author marvels at the natural beauty of the Florida Landscape.
An ode to the Florida Cypress.
ATTEND my lays, ye ever honour'd nine,
I know some lonely houses off the road
The natural world is the source of poetry.
A something in a summer's day
A goblin is bound to a grocer because of the jam and butter that the grocer provides. However, the goblin discovers a new world in the book belonging to the student. An emergency makes the goblin realize what is important to him.
O Thou bright jewel in my aim I strive
WHO taught thee conflict with the pow'rs of night,