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 dimmed,
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed:
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest 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.
Sonnets XVIII
Posted by Joe at November 20, 2003 10:52 PMHmmm. Everything OK at home, Joe?
Posted by: DJ at November 21, 2003 05:39 AMCheeky thing! ;+) Everything's fine thanks. Always a good thing to quote Bill when I'm short of something specific to say.
Posted by: Joe at November 21, 2003 07:23 AMBelieve it or not Bryan Ferry gives this beautiful sonnet even greater impact in his vocal version.
martin
Posted by: martin at November 21, 2003 09:27 AMWent looking for the Bryan Ferry version. We are not well served on the Mac side for things like that.
Posted by: Joe at November 25, 2003 12:04 PM