Love Sonnet
In the brave days of old, when Good Queen Bess Smiled on her poets, courtiers and highbrows, Love-sick young men of taste would oft address Tributes in verse to their fait ladies’ eyebrows. But times have changed, Beloved, and your face Has nothing quite resembling eyebrows on it; Two sooty, home-made curves usurp their place; They, I protest, would ne’er inspire a sonnet. Nor would your lips, nor cheeks nor finger nails (Incarnadined by fashion’s fatuous art). So, for my theme, I'll choose that homely part Where art to serve some useful end avails. Take, then, this latest of my lyric ventures: i praise, Dear Heart, your artificial dentures!
Ronald
Buchanan
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 250, 6 April 1944, Page 2
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113Love Sonnet New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 250, 6 April 1944, Page 2
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