So I mentioned in my last post how I signed on to do this 28 posts in 28 days? Hehe… off to a real good start since this is day two and my first post. In all fairness to myself though, I was sans internet for the majority of the day yesterday while at my sister’s house and up to my elbows in edits.
Alas, I vow to move forward. This is the nature of writing and life in general. Without further adieu, I give you my Monday Shakespeare Moment. I have a love affair with some of his works. Not acquainted with all of them, but some of my favorites are Romeo and Juliet, Midsummer’s Night Dream, and the Sonnets. Right now, I am feeling a sonnet, so without further adieu, I give you my Monday Shakespeare Moment. Enjoy!
Sonnet 1
From fairest creatures we desire increase,That thereby beauty’s rose might never die,
But as the riper should by time decease,His tender heir might bear his memory:
But thou contracted to thine own bright eyes,
Feed’st thy light’s flame with self-substantial fuel,
Making a famine where abundance lies,Thy self thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel:
Thou that art now the world’s fresh ornament,
And only herald to the gaudy spring,
Within thine own bud buriest thy content,
And, tender churl, mak’st waste in niggarding:Pity the world, or else this glutton be,
To eat the world’s due, by the grave and thee.
Shakespeare, 1609
