Wednesday, August 27, 2014

"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"

Sonnet 18
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 dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
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.
–William Shakespeare


Campbell Meadow, near our house.  Have an awesome Wednesday!

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7 comments:

  1. Barbara RogersAugust 27, 2014 at 8:14 AM

    I get it, one of you holds the leash and one the camera! Great pics of a sunny walk.

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  2. AnonymousAugust 27, 2014 at 9:58 AM

    The ideal photos for this poem on so many levels.

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  3. Cheri @ Blog This Mom!®August 27, 2014 at 10:32 AM

    And summer's lease hath all too short a date;

    But blog it and the summer's shared

    So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

    Missues, dogs, and pottery.

    (My apologies to Will.) :-)

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  4. Cheri @ Blog This Mom!®August 27, 2014 at 10:33 AM

    Missus! Ack. Typo in a sonnet!

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  5. smalltownmeAugust 27, 2014 at 12:02 PM

    Beautiful!

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  6. Claudia from Idiot's KitchenAugust 27, 2014 at 2:55 PM

    Cheri wins comment of the year!

    Lovely in every way!

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  7. Common Household MomAugust 27, 2014 at 9:07 PM

    Cheri, that is awesome!

    Gary, I love these photos and they lift my spirits. You have some awesome outdoorsiness around you. And Shakespeare - always good to read a sonnet.

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