David Gilmour Sings Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 (page 2)

A beautiful presentation - thnx for posting it.

the words ...

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 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.

So who was this wonderful love?

I've been reading a little about Shakespears sonnets, as I'm preparing a research essay on Japanese author, Ihara Saikaku. Some people call him the Japanese Shakespeare (tho, I do not see the similarities that some see. I think that Ihara has more similarities to Chaucer.)

What I did not know before, (until I started this research) is that most Shakespearian scholars believe that most of Will Shakespeare's sonnets were addressed to a handsome young man.

A discussion of the sonnet is at: http://www.shakespeare-online.com/sonnets/18detail.html

David Gilmour Sings Shakespeare's Sonnet 18

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