Gacked from...

[clo_again]

... claireweasley who said "Post some Shakespeare! Whee!"


Sonnets CXXX

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 damask'd, 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.


And, because it's so pretty;

"... To die, to sleep-
To sleep - perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub.
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come..."

-- Hamlet


In the words of claireweasley, if you want to do the meme? Post some Shakespeare. :)

Comments

[scoobydumblonde.livejournal.com]

I love Hamlet.

I adore Shakespeare.

[clo.livejournal.com]

I love Hamlet too. ^__^

I don't get to study him properly 'til third year. *sighs* So far away.

[scoobydumblonde.livejournal.com]

I haven't studied Shakespeare since my... sophmore year of high school? Something like that... but I make myself re-read some of his plays on occasion. :-)

[clo.livejournal.com]

It's so awesome. ^__^ It's the first thing that comes to mind whenever anyone says 'sonnet' to me now.

I'd just been watching What Dreams May Come before I first read that speech in Hamlet and thought it was the coolest thing that Hamlet references were still everywhere, even now. :)