![]() ![]() The answer, of course, is Stella, and here she is praised for the very quality the speaker usually resents, her reason and virtue. The opening is an answer to the understood question, “What’s the best source for understanding how virtue and beauty may be found together?” A “book of Nature” is a book created or “authored” by Nature, rather than a human author. This sonnet continues discussion of the Platonic idea most recently brought up in Sonnet 69 (but also in 61 and 62, and earlier on in 5, 9, 21, and 25), that beauty is meant to draw us “upward” toward virtue. ![]() I suggest you click here to open the sonnet in a separate window, so that you can refer directly to it as you read on through the analysis. So while thy beauty draws the heart to love,Īs fast thy virtue bends that love to good.īut, ah, Desire still cries: “Give me some food.” Who mark in thee what is in thee most fair Thyself, dost strive all minds that way to move, That inward sun in thine eyes shineth so. ![]() Of reason, from whose light those night-birds fly Not by rude force, but sweetest sovereignty There shall he find all vices’ overthrow, Stella, those fair lines which true goodness show. Let him but learn of love to read in thee, ![]()
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