Shakespeare Festival - Sonnet 29
I had the chance to review several productions of Shakespeare this summer for our local paper. I experienced once again how readily Shakespeare speaks to contemporary audiences though he lived over 400 years ago.For the coming week I will honor the man with some of my favorite passages from his work. This is 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 art, and that man's scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least:
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
Haply I think on thee,--and then my state
(Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth) sings hymns at heaven's gate;
For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings'.
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posted by Karen Nelson @ 6:01 PM
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