Every fair from fair?

[nq:1]Hi, Please tell me what "from" means in the following sentence: Every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed. I'd appreciate your help. Ray[/nq]
Sounds like one of Frost's.
You can re-phrase it thus:
Everything that is fair (beautiful) at some point declines from being fair...

[nq:1]Hi, Please tell me what "from" means in the following sentence: Every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed.[/nq]
"from" has the normal meaning, but presumably that won't help you. Shakespeare's poetry can be difficult even for modern English speakers.

To paraphrase:
- Everything which is fair eventually becomes less fair.

[nq:1]Hi, Please tell me what "from" means in the following sentence: Every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed. I'd appreciate your help. Ray[/nq]
It means "from", the same as it always does! I read the idea as: every beautiful (woman) declines from beauty, that is, becomes less beautiful.

Mike.
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[nq:2]Hi, Please tell me what "from" means in the following ... chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed. I'd appreciate your help.[/nq]
Sounds like one of Frost's.
"Shall I compare thee to a mending wall?"

[nq:2]Hi, Please tell me what "from" means in the following ... or nature's changing course, untrimmed. I'd appreciate your help. Ray[/nq]
[nq:1]It means "from", the same as it always does! I read the idea as: every beautiful (woman) declines from beauty, that is, becomes less beautiful.[/nq]
I wonder whether Ray's difficulty arises from the inverted sentence order so common in verse. Perh

[nq:1]Sounds like one of Frost's. "Shall I compare thee to a mending wall?"[/nq]
"Thou art more lovely and less traveled by."

Mike.
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[nq:1]"Thou art more lovely and less traveled by."[/nq]
"You look all right if nothing goes wrong with the lighting"

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Roland Hutchinson wrote, in on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:36:54 GMT:
[nq:2]"Thou art more lovely and less traveled by."[/nq]
[nq:1]"You look all right if nothing goes wrong with the lighting"[/nq]
"... in the dark with the light behind her"

Nick Spalding
BrE/IrE

[nq:1]Roland Hutchinson wrote, in on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:36:54 GMT:[/nq]
[nq:2]"You look all right if nothing goes wrong with the lighting"[/nq]
[nq:1]"... in the dark with the light behind her"[/nq]
"and when you get to the fork in the road, take it."

[nq:1]Hi, Please tell me what "from" means in the following sentence: Every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed.[/nq]
It means "from". I can't think if a synonym for "from" at the moment.

In that context it means "goes away from in a downward direction", which may be metaphotical, but one would need more context to determine that.