The Sonnets
Sonnet 39
by William Shakespeare
O how thy worth with manners may I sing
O how thy worth with manners may I sing
Thy tones are silver melted into sound,
I am the mother of sorrows,
Come, essay a sprightly measure,
"Men may sing of their Havanas, elevating to the stars"
"Hain’t you see my Mandy Lou,"
"W’en de clouds is hangin’ heavy in de sky,"
"These are the days of elfs and fays:"
WHILE others chant of gay Elysian scenes,
I sit upon the old sea wall,
"Place this bunch of mignonette"
"O Mother Race! to thee I bring"
"I ‘ve been watchin’ of ‘em, parson,"
"Oh, the poets may sing of their Lady Irenes,"
"I done got ‘uligion, honey, an’ I ’s happy ez a king;"
The speaker criticizes the idea of hope.
A poem about the coming of spring.
A nonsensical nursery rhyme.
A limerick about a hobby horse.
In Heaven a spirit doth dwell, "Whose heart-strings are a lute;"
"“In the fight at Brandywine, Black Samson, a giant negro armed witha scythe, sweeps his way through the red ranks….”"
It can't be summer, — that got through;
A short story about violets who were picked from their home in the forest and brought to little girl’s house. With the help of sunlight and a caged canary, the violets thought positively and blossomed.
Aye, lay him in his grave, the old dead year!
"The moon begins her stately ride"