Great Regulars: She plants "potatoes, radishes, lettuce, peas/

Tomatoes, beets, beans, pumpkins, corn,/And even fruit trees." And even though she planted only one of each, that is still a lot for such a small plot of land.

She reports that today there is a "cider apple tree" growing in the plot that she suspects might be from her planting experience.

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Frost's A Girl's Garden

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And he ends the sestet by mentioning the mundane work he wants to abandon for the sublime enjoyment of the warm, spring day.

In the second sestet addressing the alluring features of the night, he finds the night too wonderful and May flowers too sweet to remain inside just mundanely sleeping.

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: McKay's Spring in New Hampshire

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The weakness of her power reveals ever more clearly how wretched the speaker has become from all of his attention paid to this unworthy woman. He knows she can only do him harm, weaken his resolve to live a moral life, distract him from his previously stated goals of the pursuit of truth and beauty. His outbursts cause his sonnets to resemble a confessional, but instead of dumping his sins onto a priest, he crafts them into works of art.

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Shakespeare Sonnet 150

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The speaker asserts in the first quatrain of sonnet 151, "Love is too young to know what conscience is," again using "love" as a euphemistic metaphor for "lust." In the second line, he avers that "love" now employed literally and "conscience" are virtually identical, as "conscience" and soul are identical.

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Shakespeare Sonnet 151

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The speaker then poses the question, why should I blame you for breaking two vows when I break twenty? He claims that he is "perjur'd most" or that he has told more lies than she has. He claims that on the one hand, he makes his vows only to "misuse thee." Yet on the other, all the faith he has in her "is lost."

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Shakespeare Sonnet 152

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The speaker reveals that it makes him "smile serene" as he comprehends "wisdom's brilliant blaze." He realizes that the origin of Nature is the "Hidden Home Unseen." The "seen" arises from the "Unseen." This soul-perceived milieu is the "factory whence all forms or fairies start,/The bards, colossal minds, and hearts,/The gods and all,/And all, and all!"

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Yogananda's Nature's Nature

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