... short the season, flowering today, tomorrow apt to fail ...
Brittle beauty that nature made so frail,
Whereof the gift is small, and short the season,
Flowering today, tomorrow apt to fail ...
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517 – 1547) was an English aristocrat, and one of the founders of English Renaissance poetry.
Surrey and his friend Thomas Wyatt were the first English poets to write in the sonnet form that Shakespeare later used, and Henry was the first English poet to publish blank verse.
... short the season, flowering today, tomorrow apt to fail ...
Brittle beauty that nature made so frail,
Whereof the gift is small, and short the season,
Flowering today, tomorrow apt to fail ...
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517 – 1547) was an English aristocrat, and one of the founders of English Renaissance poetry.
Surrey and his friend Thomas Wyatt were the first English poets to write in the sonnet form that Shakespeare later used, and Henry was the first English poet to publish blank verse.