Shakespearian Sonnet Support

by Valis 5 Replies latest jw friends

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  Valis

  One of my lovelies (do I need to explain?) works for the Shakespeare Festival of Dallas and she just called me w/a request. Someone was getting a marriage proprosal on stage tonight and they needed a quick Shakespearian quote from one of his love sonnets.... I quickly found Sonnet 39. I gave her the first 4 lines....and mentioned that the fifth line probably might not go over so well....here's how is reads...

  1. O! how thy worth with manners may I sing,
  2. When thou art all the better part of me?
  3. What can mine own praise to mine own self bring?
  4. And what is't but mine own when I praise thee?
  5. Even for this, let us divided live,
  
  It might have ended badly...very badly..*L*

  Sincerely,

  District Overbeer
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  Windchaser

  Hey, I would have included the fifth line. It could be the beginning of a lasting relationship.
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  Xena

  Let me not to the marriage of true minds

  Admit impediments. Love is not love

  Which alters when it alteration finds,

  Or bends with the remover to remove

  O,no! it is an ever-fixed mark,

  That looks on tempests and is never shaken;

  It is the star to every wandering bark,

  Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken,

  Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks

  Within his bending sickle's compass come;

  Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks

  But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

  If this be error, and upon me prov'd,

  I never writ, nor no man ever lov'd.
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  Dutchie

  The 13th Sonnet, my favorite:

  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 dimmed,
  And every fair from fair sometime declines,
  By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed:
  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.
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  Windchaser

  OMG, I'm in ecstacy! More! More!
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  Golden Girl

  OH NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Winds in heat again!

  And she's wearing those RED SHOES!!!!!!!!!!

  Golden Girl.....aka Snoozy

  (Just funnin)

  You know I love ya!