The BlueIris Semi-Nightly Poetry Break, 3/31/10

[BlueIris]

"Sonnet 77"

Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear,
Thy dial how thy precious minutes waste;
The vacant leaves thy mind's imprint will bear,
And of this book, this learning mayst thou taste.
The wrinkles which thy glass will truly show
Of mouthed graves will give thee memory;
Thou by thy dial's shady stealth mayst know
Time's thievish progress to eternity.
Look what thy memory cannot contain,
Commit to these waste blanks, and thou shalt find
Those children nursed, deliver'd from thy brain,
To take a new acquaintance of thy mind.
These offices, so oft as thou wilt look,
Shall profit thee and much enrich thy book.

--William Shakespeare

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear BlueIris!

I am loving these!

Thank you...

[BlueIris]

2. I'm really hoping to get some non-Shakespearean ones from this era in here soon.

George Herbert, maybe somebody like William Congreve.