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    This 14-line sonnet explores the paradoxical nature of beauty. Beauty is described as both liberating like the air and boundless like the universe, yet also the cause of deep despair and linked to concepts like evil, curses, and destruction. The poem ends with an image of a poet admiring the beauty of a storm while standing on a sinking ship's deck amid shrieks.

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    This 14-line sonnet explores the paradoxical nature of beauty. Beauty is described as both liberating like the air and boundless like the universe, yet also the cause of deep despair and linked to concepts like evil, curses, and destruction. The poem ends with an image of a poet admiring the beauty of a storm while standing on a sinking ship's deck amid shrieks.

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    Beauty Beauty: Sample Sonnet Sample Sonnet

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    This 14-line sonnet explores the paradoxical nature of beauty. Beauty is described as both liberating like the air and boundless like the universe, yet also the cause of deep despair and linked to concepts like evil, curses, and destruction. The poem ends with an image of a poet admiring the beauty of a storm while standing on a sinking ship's deck amid shrieks.

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    Sample Sonnet

    Beauty
    By John Barlas
    Beauty is liberal as the heavenly air,
    Beauty is boundless as the universe:
    The waves of evil ponderously immerse
    The pearl of good; beauty is everywhere.
    Beauty is a devout a deep despair;
    Hopes that with heaven's highest stars converse:
    The poisonous blossom of a devil's curse;
    The first and last word of an angel's prayer.
    Creation and destruction at thy beck
    Call love and lust: throiugh battle's bloody swarm
    That youth with smiling face sees but thy form:
    And, 'mid the shrieks of the fast sinking wreck,
    A poet, standing on the wave-washed deck,
    Stares awe-struck at the beauty of the storm.
    Aug. 7th, 1888.

    Sample Sonnet

    Beauty
    By John Barlas
    Beauty is liberal as the heavenly air,
    Beauty is boundless as the universe:
    The waves of evil ponderously immerse
    The pearl of good; beauty is everywhere.
    Beauty is a devout a deep despair;
    Hopes that with heaven's highest stars converse:
    The poisonous blossom of a devil's curse;
    The first and last word of an angel's prayer.
    Creation and destruction at thy beck
    Call love and lust: throiugh battle's bloody swarm
    That youth with smiling face sees but thy form:
    And, 'mid the shrieks of the fast sinking wreck,
    A poet, standing on the wave-washed deck,
    Stares awe-struck at the beauty of the storm.
    Aug. 7th, 1888.

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