sonnet

APOCALYPSE from kendrive ^Pro 19 days old

Last Friday on http://grumpy.blog.co.uk/ I posted "Catastrophe! Catastrophe!", about the end of the world. In today's sonnet Dante Rossetti has something ...

THAT TIME OF YEAR from kendrive ^Pro 26 days old

We are now truly into Autumn, so I thought I would bring you this sonnet from my blog archive (2006). Shakespeare relates to the eventual ending of ...

IT COMES TO US ALL from kendrive ^Pro 27 days old

SONNET 60 Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In ...

PROMISES, PROMISES from kendrive ^Pro 28 days old

Those of you who have been following this blog for some time may recall that I posted the following Shakespeare sonnet, together with my paraphrase, ...

MINE EYE HATH PLAY'D THE PAINTER - BUT CANNOT KNOW YOUR HEART from kendrive ^Pro 30 days old

SONNET 24 Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stell'd Thy beauty's form in table of my heart; My body is the frame wherein 'tis held, And perspective ...

WHO WOULD BELIEVE ME? from kendrive ^Pro 30 days old

SONNET 17 Who will believe my verse in time to come, If it were fill'd with your most high deserts? Though yet, heaven knows, it is but as a tomb ...

UNLESS THOU GET A SON from kendrive ^Pro 32 days old

[ ... ] child. SONNET 7 Lo! in the orient when the gracious light Lifts up his burning head, each under eye Doth homage to his new-appearing sight, ...

WITHOUT YOU from kendrive ^Pro 33 days old

SONNET 98 From you have I been absent in the spring, When proud-pied April dress'd in all his trim Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing, That ...

BUSHKA'S FAVOURITE from kendrive ^Pro 34 days old

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 ...

THOU ART MORE LOVELY from kendrive ^Pro 35 days old

This is perhaps on of the most famous of Shakespeare's sonnets. SONNET 18 Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough ...