English buddies!

HELP! I need your input on this sonnet for my325 class (ick!) It's grammatically correct so if you have comments, PLEASE don't say I used the reflexive improperly.

It's Spenserian (abab bcbc cdcd ee) and below:

She stands at the glass, mien downcast
yet when I gaze above, a smile sits on her lips
and her eyes are lit with joy for me at last,
bringing slow warmth to my fingertips.

Apollo is racing across the sky, illuminating her slips,
seeking the dim echo of her in the window frame,
traveling slowly up her dress to rest upon her hips,
before showing that visage for which he came.

So long ago for her did I seek to aim
and long did I hold her in much regard
until I found her to be previously tame
to the gilded cage so closely barred.

The pluméd bird lives always above
and I ne'er more shall be in love.

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Recap from my 21st

My 21st went pretty awesome. About 20 people were there, filtering in and out through the night. We had a nice heavy meal to deal with all the alcohol and then went dancing and then back upstairs when it was too hot and drank some more.

This is what I REMEMBER drinking (shots unless otherwise mentioned):
1 black and tan (pint)
2 screaming orgasms (YUM!)
1 buttery nipple
1 tequila with lime
1 tequila sunrise (about 8 oz, though I really don't know how that worked out)
1 pineapple upside down cake (not doing that again)
1 really nice mead that benn gave me (super yum)
1 sex on a beach

Now, That's all I REMEMBER.
Random thoughts:
I started drinking about 8 stopped drinking at 2 (last call). I had the most awesome waitress, in the world, Teal Dye (swear to god, that's her name, she goes to GMU with me). I have about 4 pictures that Benn took, that I don't remember. I hugged Justin good-bye 4 times. I can walk a straight line in heels, while drunk, and I don't wobble (super-cool). Lauren S is an AMAZING dancer. I impressed everyone with my strong thigh muscles. I wasn't in the dance level when my birthday song (Lil Jon and the Eastside Boyz's "Get Low", ty Lauryn) was played. Some of my friends are creepy. Most of my friends are AMAZING!!! Denny's is very yummy when drunk. I say "thank you" WAAAAAYYYY too much after drinking. Leaving the party early, when you're the DD = NOT COOL! I didn't get a hangover, but I did forget my makeup in Lauryn's car. Cigars are good. Absolut is BAD.

Weird Dreams

Dream one, last week:
I was with a boy with soft brown hair and warm hazel eyes. He was kind and attentive and just a little mischievous. I had made a long journey to meet him and the room we were in was only one on a long corridor lined with rooms. He was called away and I went exploring, even though he thought me asleep. The last door on the right held a room and through the cracked door, I saw a large table, full of people some I knew, others I didn't, discussing something very serious. I didn't want to disturb them so I closed the door and looked at the one across the way. it was closed but I could hear the boy on the the side and another voice, low enough that I could not make out a single thing about it. When I opened the door, the boy was kneeling at the feet of a woman. I could tell she was important maybe a queen or other royalty but I don't know how. He saw me and when she finished speaking to him he explained that though he loved me he didn't not have a choice when it came to her, if she called him away he would have to go. I said I understood and we returned to our room and slept.

Dream two, this morning:
I was in a small town looking for the law office, but it was always one away from the building i was at. I knew I wasn't supposed to be there because everyone was looking at me and I was dressed strangely. I had a basket which I had set down near a tree and a woman who was my coworker saw some pictures and wanted to know how long I knew I was pregnant and was I going to make an honest woman out of myself. I was 8 or 9 months pregnant with my ex-boyfriend's baby and it already too late to get an abortion but I was terrified that I would be chained to him for the rest of my life.