fair youth
Comely young person
Fair youth is a phrase from literary tradition, most famously addressing the young man in Shakespeare's sonnets.
Fair means beautiful, and youth suggests a young person, typically male in this context.
The phrase evokes idealized beauty and the fleeting nature of youthfulness: The poet urged the fair youth to marry and preserve his beauty through children.
- handsomeAttractive in appearance
- beautyAesthetic excellence
- belovedOne who is treasured
- sonnetsFourteen-line rhymed poems
- ShakespeareElizabethan dramatist and poet
first folio · golden · young · radiant · lovely · admirer · muse · immortal · verse · bloom · tender · devotion · gentle · suitor · passion · poet · adoration · fleeting
fair youthold man
Elderly male person
ancient one · graybeard · crone · dotard · codger
fair youthmemento mori
Artistic death reminder
Death · fallen woman · decay · corpse · withered rose
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