Monday, January 13, 2003
Sonnet 5: Those Hours, That With Gentle Work Did Frame Comments
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Those hours, that with gentle work did frame
The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell,
Will play the tyrants to the very same
And that unfair which fairly doth excel;
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7/18/2025 4:55:22 PM # 1.0.0
Sonnet 5 is a procreation sonnet within the Fair Youth sequence. It forms a diptych with Sonnet 6, which continues it. It repeats the emphasis on human aging, compared with progress of the seasons. [Wikipedia]