Unit 4: Vocabulary from Readings 3

I designed a pyramid so tough that a star
that only glows every one hundred years falls
into the center giving divine perfect light.

I sat on the throne
drinking nectar with allah

I am a gazelle so swift
so swift you can’t catch me.

My son noah built a new/ark and
I stood proudly at the helm
as we sailed on a soft summer day

Men intone my loving name
All praises All praises
I am the one who would save

I am so perfect, so divine so ethereal so surreal

I cannot be comprehended except by my permission

my feet were two fish made of wool,
two long sharks
sea blue, shot through
by one golden thread,
two immense blackbirds,
two cannons

They were so handsome for the first time
my feet seemed to me unacceptable
like two decrepit firemen,
firemen unworthy of that woven fire,
of those glowing socks.

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May

But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st

But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st