Sonnet 18
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 owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.



masqueraded 2:06 pm on May 30, 2008 Permalink |
check out Adrienne Rich’s ‘Twenty-One Love Poems ‘: http://masqueradedwaltz.blogspot.com/2006/02/twenty-one-love-poems.html
now that’s a real love poem; 22 sonnets in all
trespasser 6:09 pm on May 31, 2008 Permalink |
u took a great deal of effort to get your works ‘publicized’. waiting for your boy in blue to trespass? ha. had your same feelings few yrs back. understand. of unborn love. i wrote 13 poems. ha. my love didn’t pass by though.
(talking abt a thousand years.. this song called 情商 sung by 文章written and composed by 梁文福. old song. but u’ll like the lyrics:)
i prefer sonnet 116. marriage of true minds.
yup. aniwae, recommend some poems that i like. u may fall in love with them too.
elizabeth berret browning’s sonnets from the Portuguese 14 and 23 (How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.)
emily dickinson’s poems esp ‘if you were coming in the fall’
william blake’s ‘the clod and the pebble’
robert burn’s ‘A red,red rose’
trespasser
(had problems accessing wordpress. if ya leave comment, can send to email instead? thks.)
Disillusioned Illusion 4:05 pm on June 5, 2008 Permalink |
A beautiful Shakespearean sonnet which reveals his ambiguous sexual orientation…
Disillusioned Illusion 10:00 am on June 6, 2008 Permalink |
A beautiful poem which also reveals Shakespeare’s ambiguous sexual orientation, in my opinion.
Disillusioned Illusion 10:07 am on June 6, 2008 Permalink |
The blog discriminates me, or is it just a feeling?
alvennito 10:18 am on June 6, 2008 Permalink |
A beautiful poem which reveals Shakespeare ambiguous sexual orientation..
kimchilover 4:07 pm on June 11, 2008 Permalink |
i never really liked this rather famous poem. admittedly, i’m no poem lover, though i do take lit in school. i prefer prose, easier to analyze.
but then, whatever rocks your boat….
i do find tt the choice for this being your favourite poem very interesting. it tells a lot about the person….