Sonnet 8

Sonnet 8 Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly? Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy: Why lov'st thou that which thou receiv'st not gladly, Or else receiv'st with pleasure thine annoy? If the true concord of well-tuned sounds, By unions married, do offend thine ear, They do but sweetly chide thee,...

As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 7

As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 7 Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As man’s ingratitude; Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen, Although thy breath be rude. Heigh-ho! sing, heigh-ho! unto the green holly: Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly: Then, heigh-ho, the...

Sonnet 73

Sonnet 73 That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west; Which by...

Sonnet 24

Sonnet 24 Mine eye hath played the painter and hath steeled, Thy beauty's form in table of my heart; My body is the frame wherein 'tis held, And perspective that is best painter's art. For through the painter must you see his skill, To find where your true image pictured lies, Which in my bosom's...

Sonnet 116

Sonnet 116 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 wand'ring bark, Whose worth's...

Hamlet to the Players

Hamlet To the Players (Act 3 Scene 2) Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue: but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand,...

Sonnet 106

Sonnet 106 When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions of the fairest wights, And beauty making beautiful old rhyme In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights, Then, in the blazon of sweet beauty's best, Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow, I see their antique pen would have...

Sonnet 98

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 heavy Saturn laugh'd and leap'd with him. Yet nor the lays of birds nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odour and in hue Could...

Daily Prompt: Three Coins in the Fountain

Daily Prompt: Three Coins in the Fountain by Krista on March 21, 2014 Have you ever tossed a coin or two into a fountain and made a wish? Did it come true? ~~~~~~~~ I have thrown my fair share of coins into several fountains. A wish was made each time. Did any of my wishes...

Red Sky Morning

Hope you are having a Ruby Red Day! Because of all the rain we have been getting lately, my husband and I were talking about this phrase. Neither of us could get it correct, so I decided to look it up and do a Ruby Red post on it. The common phrase "Red sky at...