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SONNET (TO THE LADIES WHO SAW ME CROWN'D), by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
First Line: What is there in the universal earth
Last Line: Due reverence to your most sovereign eyes.


WHAT is there in the universal Earth
More lovely than a Wreath from the bay tree?
Haply a Halo round the Moon--a glee
Circling from three sweet pair of Lips in Mirth;
And haply you will say the dewy birth
Of morning Roses--riplings tenderly
Spread by the Halcyon's breast upon the Sea--
But these Comparisons are nothing worth--
Then is there nothing in the world so fair?
The silvery tears of April?--Youth of May?
Or June that breaths out life for butterflies?
No--none of these can from my favourite bear
Away the Palm--yet shall it ever pay
Due Reverence to your most sovereign eyes.





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