...lily's white, Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose; They were but sweet, but figures of delight, Drawn after you, you pattern of all those. Yet seem'd...you away, As with your shadow I with these did play. creep in and low-mutters under the following as the lights come on again, but in a purpled key after...

...lilies white. Nor praise the deep vermillion in the rose; They were, tho' sweet, but f'gures of delight, Drawn after you, you pattern of all those. Yet seem'd...it winter still, and you away, As with your shadow 1 with these did play! Scarcely less sure, or if a less valuable, not less indispensable mark ytvvatot'...

...lilies white, Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose, 10 They were but sweet, but figures of delight: Drawn after you, you pattern of all those. Yet seem'd...you away, As with your shadow I with these did play. Oh! come simile a un inverno fu il tempo della mia lontananza da te, delizia dell'anno fuggitivo! che...

...lily's white, Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose; They were but sweet, but figures of delight, Drawn after you, - you pattern of all those. Yet seem'd...you away, As with your shadow I with these did play. 99 The forward violet thus did I chide: Sweet thief, whence didst thou steal thy sweet that smells,...

...absence had on the poet? Whot do you notice about the change in tone, compared with Sonnets 88-96? The forward violet thus did I chide: Sweet thief,...pride Which on thy soft cheek for complexion dwells 5 In my love's veins thou hast too grossly dyed. The lily I condemned for thy hand, And buds of marjoram...

...a poem, and the poet's writing hand seems to find itself involuntarily steeped in rhetorical dyes: The forward violet thus did I chide: 'Sweet thief,...pride Which on thy soft cheek for complexion dwells 4 In my love's veins thou has too grossly dyed.' The lily I condemned for thy hand, And buds of marjoram...

...lily's white, Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose; They were but sweet, but figures of delight, Drawn after you, you pattern of all those. Yet seem'd...you away, As with your shadow I with these did play. The Petrarchan sonnet form, named after the fourteenth-century Italian poet Petrarch, is in two parts:...

...elder Seneca. Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose; They were but, sweet, but figures of delight, Drawn after you, you pattern of all those. Yet seem'd...you away, As with your shadow I with these did play. The metaphors, or metaphorical personifications, in the first quatrain are characteristically Shakespearean,...

.... . thee: ie, that had not stolen its fragrance or color from you 216 Shakespeare's Sonnets 217 99 The forward violet thus did I chide: "Sweet thief,...pride Which on thy soft cheek for complexion dwells 4 In my love's veins thou hast too grossly dyed." The lily I condemned for thy hand, And buds of marjoram...

...lilies white, Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose; They were but sweet, but figures of delight, Drawn after you, you pattern of all those. Yet seem'd...Which on thy soft cheek for complexion dwells, In my lore's veins thou hast too grossly dy'd, The lilj I condemned for thy hand. And buds of marjoram had...