Poetry Tuesday

[salinea]

Poetry Tuesday, I like the concept

I sent this one to my father this morning, because he wouldn't believe it when I told him the Sting album name was a reference to Shakespeare.

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground.
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.

Comments

[catrionamacnair.livejournal.com]

Ah, beauty.

*thinks of polite way to ask her flatmate to return her lended copy of Shakespeare*

[rebbe]

Ohh, I remember this one. It's one of the few Shakespearean sonnets I've studied in school!

[sophiap.livejournal.com]

I remember being tickled by the "Ten Summoner's Tales" album title. I love the fact that before being a rock star, he used to teach high school literature.

[metzhead.livejournal.com]

ah, the dark lady. love her; I sent that poem to a girl once :p

I heard the theory one time that the dark lady was a black girl Shakespeare had an affair with.

[after-nightfall.livejournal.com]

Whee, my favourite Shakespeare's sonnet! I liked this one so much I learned it by heart even before we ever studied it.