The Sonnets
Sonnet 151
by William Shakespeare
Love is too young to know what conscience is
Love is too young to know what conscience is
Some say thy fault is youth, some wantonness
The author describes the most desired privilege of any cadet at West Point.
Full many a glorious morning have I seen
Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war
O how much more doth beauty beauteous seem
The night was wide, and furnished scant
Those lines that I before have writ do lie
In London, the narrator's brother learns of the Martian attack.
How like a winter hath my absence been
Mr. March arrives just in time for Christmas Day.
Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day
Oliver, fearing he will be asked to leave the Brownlow home, requests a favor from Mr. Brownlow. Oliver is sent to run an errand.
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
The duke and the dauphin are exposed as frauds. The gold is discovered when the deceased Wilks is exhumed. Huck escapes back to the raft, where he is once again joined by the duke and the dauphin.
So oft have I invoked thee for my muse
Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts
Ozma and the others prepare for a visit to Glinda the Good. Glinda comes up with a way to make Oz invisible to all eyes other than their own. She has made it impossible for anyone to communicate with Oz ever again.
Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest
Is it for fear to wet a widow’s eye
So shall I live, supposing thou art true
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore
David's hopes for domestic bliss are not fulfilled.
One of the ones that Midas touched
In the old age black was not counted fair