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,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm’d;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm’d;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
~ William Shakespeare, Sonnet #18 ~
Happy Birthday, Willy.
I tthink that Sonnet was the first thing I memorized by the Bard. It sure broke the ice for me in my dating days.
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Haha! It’s the only one of his poems I know off the top of my head!
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It is the only one that I can recite fully, also, Kim. It worked so well I never even considered learning another one.
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1564-1616. Embedded in my brain with lots of other things from long ago. I am just finishing Hamnet, an incredible novel about Shakespeare’s family life. Love it!
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I’ve always loved his tragedies over everything else he wrote. I’m not sure what that says about me.🤔
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1564-1616. Embedded in my brain with lots of other things from long ago. I am just finishing Hamnet, an incredible novel about Shakespeare’s family life. Love it!
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Shakespeare looking hot! lol
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That is a good image isn’t it?
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It really is, lol
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Never been a fan….I prefer the Greek tragedies and comedies….Happy b/day Will chuq
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I like both.☺️
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So much pleasure he has given us over the centuries! Happy Birthday to the bard.
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That he has!
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Appropriate that his birthday is also England’s national day.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Very!
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Ah school days! 😁
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Lovely present for (and from) the wordsmith. Keith
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This is the only poem of his that I’m greatly familiar with.
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Well, at least it is a great one.
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Well of course the greatest writer in history was a Taurus :p
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😁
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😀
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