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A SONNET IN DIALOGUE by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: COME TO THE TERRACE, MAY, THE SUN IS LOW
Last Line: THERE ARE NO EYES MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN YOURS!
Subject(s): EYES;

FRANK (on the Lawn).

COME to the Terrace, May, -- the sun is low.

MAY (in the House).

Thanks, I prefer my Browning here instead.

FRANK.

There are two peaches by the strawberry bed.

MAY.

They will be riper if we let them grow.

FRANK.

Then the Park-aloe is in bloom, you know.

MAY.

Also, her Majesty Queen Anne is dead.

FRANK.

But surely, May, your pony must be fed.

MAY.

And was, and is. I fed him hours ago.
'Tis useless, Frank, you see I shall not stir.

FRANK.

Still, I had something you would like to hear.

MAY.

No doubt some new frivolity of men.

FRANK.

Nay, -- 'tis a thing the gentler sex deplores
Chiefly, I think...

MAY (coming to the window).
What is this secret, then?

FRANK (mysteriously).

There are no eyes more beautiful than yours!



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