Edmund Waller’s poem “On a Girdle” invokes this thing in its final line after asking “Give me but what this ribbon bound.” A poem titled for this thing says “She’s all states, and all princes, I, / Nothing else is. / Princes do but play us; compared to this.” This physical thing is the focal object of the entire second stanza of “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time.” This thing is asked to go chide “Late school boys and sour prentices” in a John Donne aubade titled for it. The final lines of “To His Coy Mistress” state that though a pair cannot make this thing “Stand still,” they can make it “run.” A sonnet whose first line ends with the word for this thing later states “If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun.” For 10 points, Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130 says that a “mistress’ eyes are nothing like” what object? ■END■
ANSWER: Sun [accept “The Sun Rising” or “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun”; accept sunbeams or sunlight; prompt on world by asking “what word is specifically used in that poem?”] (“To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” is by Robert Herrick.)
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