...remind ourselves, the rhythm adheres to the basic iambic pattern. Shakespeare, for instance, wrote of sweet beauty's best, Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow .... (Sonnet CVI, ll. 5-6) Donne could be just as regular when the occasion demanded: the great soule...

...chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions of the fairest wights, And beauty making beautiful old rime In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights, Then...best, Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow, I sec their antique pen would have expressed Even such a beauty as you master now. So all their praises...

...affords. Fair, ì(ind, and true, have often liv'd alone, Which three lill now, never \ept seat in one. evi When in the Chronicle of wasted time, I see descriptions of the fairest wights, And beauty matyng beautiful old rhyme, In praise of Ladies dead, and lovely Knights, Then in the blazon of sweet...

...sonnets, poetry's life is a contingent life, remade to fit new situations, as we see in sonnet 106: When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions...beauty's best, Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow, 1 see their Antique pen would have expressed Ev'n such a beauty as you master now. So all their praises...

...affords. Fair, kind, and true, have often lived alone, Which three till now never kept seat in one. 106 When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions...the fairest wights, And beauty making beautiful old rime In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights, Then, in the blazon of sweet beauty's best, Of hand,...

...affords. Fair, kind, and true have often lived alone, Which three till now never kept seat in one. When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions...rhyme In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights; 5 Then in the blazon of sweet beauty's best, Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow, I see their...

...in the chronicle of wasted time'1 with its evocation of the 'antique pen' which sets out to make a 'blazon of sweet beauty's best,/ Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye. of brow'. See Stephen Booth (ed.1 , Shahesprare's Sonnets (New Haven and London: Yale UP. 19781, 452-4. For a...

...blason of the lady's eye, hair, bosom, or less often mentioned body parts; what Shakespeare called "the blazon of sweet beauty's best, /Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow" (Sonnet 106). In this case the basic meaning is praise, but there is also a trivial-pursuit implication...

...freezings have I felt, what dark days seen! What old December's bareness everywhere! 10558 Sonnet 106 Bernard 19136546 Youth is vivid rather than happy. 6521 LOVELL Maria 1803-1877 10559 Sonnet 106 For we, which now behold these present days, Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues...

...official dwelling) 106 When in the chronicle of wasted time 1 I see descriptions of the fairest wights, 2 And beauty making beautiful old rhyme In praise of...knights; Then, in the blazon of sweet beauty's best, 5 Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow, I see their antique pen would have expressed Even such...