I’m back with another Shakespeare Saturday and the first sonnet of the year! I tried to keep it short but I have no self-restraint and I can’t hold myself back when it comes to a good sonnet. Sorry. Sonnet 26 Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage Thy merit hath my duty strongly knit,… Continue reading Shakespeare Saturdays: Sonnet 26

Happy Holidays and happy Boxing Day! Here’s a short post about sonnet 25 to round of this year’s Shakespeare Saturdays. Sonnet 25 Let those who are in favour with their stars, Of public honour and proud titles boast, Whilst I, whom fortune of such triumph bars, Unlook’d for joy in that I honour most. Great… Continue reading Shakespeare Saturdays: Sonnet 25

Welcome to a very short post about sonnet 24. Sonnet 24 Mine eye hath play’d the painter and hath stell’d Thy beauty’s form in table of my heart; My body is the frame wherein ’tis held, And perspective it is the painter’s art. For through the painter must you see his skill, To find where… Continue reading Shakespeare Saturdays: Sonnet 24

Welcome to a short post about sonnet 23. Sonnet 23 As an unperfect actor on the stage, Who with his fear is put besides his part, Or some fierce thing replete with too much rage, Whose strength’s abundance weakens his own heart; So I, for fear of trust, forget to say The perfect ceremony of… Continue reading Shakespeare Saturdays: Sonnet 23

Just a quick Shakespeare Saturday post about sonnet 22… Sonnet 22 My glass shall not persuade me I am old, So long as youth and thou are of one date; But when in thee time’s furrows I behold, Then look I death my days should expiate. For all that beauty that doth cover thee Is… Continue reading Shakespeare Saturdays: Sonnet 22

I looked at some of Shakespeare’s collaborations last week but I’m going back to the sonnets this week. I’m exploring sonnet 21 this week and I’ll try to be brief but I’m not sure I know the meaning of the word. Sonnet 21 So is it not with me as with that Muse, Stirr’d by… Continue reading Shakespeare Saturdays: Sonnet 21

In last week’s Shakespeare Saturday, I looked into a few more plays in the Shakespeare Apocrypha. I did intend to publish a post about Othello today but I didn’t finish the research I was doing so I’m just writing a very quick post about sonnet 20. Enjoy… Sonnet 20 A woman’s face with Nature’s own… Continue reading Shakespeare Saturdays: Sonnet 20

In last week’s Shakespeare Saturday, I explored The Tempest but I thought I’d return to the sonnets this week. From now on, until I decide otherwise, I’m just going to look at one sonnet in these posts unless two sonnets form a pair. It makes the posts a little shorter and I can dedicate more time… Continue reading Shakespeare Saturdays: Sonnet 19

Earlier this week we welcomed summer to the northern hemisphere and what better way to celebrate than to take a look at Shakespeare’s most famous sonnet? Shakespeare accurately represents the British Summer in this beautiful poem – Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines really sums up this week’s weather – but that’s not… Continue reading Shakespeare Saturdays: Sonnet 18

After two years of sporadic Shakespeare Saturday posts I have finally made it to the end of the procreation sequence. This week’s Shakespeare Saturday is a super quick look into sonnet 17. Enjoy! Sonnet 17 Who will believe my verse in time to come, If it were fill’d with your most high deserts? Though yet… Continue reading Shakespeare Saturdays: Sonnet 17