– Good Morning! – Shakespeare Sonnet 73

  Shakespeare 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 ruin’d choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou see’st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west; […]

– Good morning! – Shakespeare’s Sonnet 29

  Shakespeare’s Sonnet 29 When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself, and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featur’d like him, like him with friends possess’d, Desiring this man’s […]

– Good morning! – Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18

  Shakespeare’s 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 […]

– Good morning! – Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116

  Shakespeare’s 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-fixèd mark, That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, […]

– Good Morning! – Shakespeare’s Sonnet 1

  Shakespeare’s 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, Thyself thy […]

– Have a nice day! – Shakespeare’s sonnet – 102

Shakespeare’s sonnet – 102 My love is strengthen’d, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear; That love is merchandiz’d, whose rich esteeming, The owner’s tongue doth publish every where. Our love was new, and then but in the spring, When I was wont to greet it with my […]

– Good morning! – Shakespeare’s Sonnets: 101

  ***********   Mobile version   ***********     Shakespeare’s Sonnet: 101 O truant Muse what shall be thy amends For thy neglect of truth in beauty dy’d? Both truth and beauty on my love depends; So dost thou too, and therein dignified. Make answer Muse: wilt thou not haply say, ‘Truth needs no colour, […]

Happy Easter… Every love redeems a bit of grace, Abetting God

Every love redeems a bit of grace, Abetting God in filling lust with light. So does Christ’s passion passion’s truth reveal: That God Himself such love for us can feel, Embracing us as we our loved ones might, Rejoicing in our love as we embrace. – Nicholas Gordon ***********************************************************

Ah, gentle soul of me, that didst depart – Love Poem by Luís de Camões

Ah, gentle soul of me, that didst depart This life of discontent, so sudden tane; Rest there eternal in the heavenly reign, Live I here pent to play sad mortal part! If from th’ ethereal seats where homed thou art Thy mem’ry things of earth may not disdain, Forget not his dear love, whose ardent […]

A Woman’s Shortcomings by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1846)

She has laughed as softly as if she sighed, She has counted six, and over, Of a purse well filled, and a heart well tried — Oh, each a worthy lover! They “give her time”; for her soul must slip Where the world has set the grooving; She will lie to none with her fair […]

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