tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3581775.post399935219600911472..comments2023-05-26T07:03:06.774-04:00Comments on Edgehill House: Poem of the DaySerafinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04614156600834270762noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3581775.post-62104988679215456852011-05-02T14:31:33.826-04:002011-05-02T14:31:33.826-04:00Thanks Steve! I love the Bard's sonnets.Thanks Steve! I love the Bard's sonnets.Serafinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04614156600834270762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3581775.post-47844610282527469022011-05-02T13:34:05.978-04:002011-05-02T13:34:05.978-04:00My fave, Sonnet 29, same feel:
When in disgrace w...My fave, Sonnet 29, same feel:<br /><br />When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, <br /> I all alone beweep my outcast state, <br />And trouble deaf Heaven with my bootless cries, <br /> And look upon myself, and curse my fate, <br /><br />Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, <br /> Featur'd like him, like him with friends possess'd, <br />Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope, <br /> With what I most enjoy contented least: <br /><br />Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, <br /> Haply I think on thee,--and then my state <br />(Like to the lark at break of day arising <br /> From sullen earth) sings hymns at heaven's gate; <br /><br />For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings <br /> That then I scorn to change my state with kings'.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13261780663306162204noreply@blogger.com