1623. Is she kind as she is fair? For beauty lives with kindness: To help him of his blindness; Then to Silvia let us sing, William Shakespeare. ΙΟ 15 "O MISTRESS MINE, WHERE ARE YOU ROAMING?" From Twelfth Night O MISTRESS mine, where are you roaming? Trip no further, pretty sweeting, Every wise man's son doth know. What is love? 't is not hereafter; 6 1623. 12 William Shakespeare. "TAKE, O TAKE THOSE LIPS AWAY" From Measure for Measure TAKE, O take those lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn; TELL me where is fancy bred, Reply, reply. 4 1600. It is engendered in the eyes, Let us all ring fancy's knell : William Shakespeare. 10 1599. Youth is nimble, Age is lame: Youth is hot and bold, Age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, and Age is tame: Age, I do abhor thee, Youth, I do adore thee; O! my Love, my Love is young! Age, I do defy thee O sweet shepherd, hie thee, For methinks thou stay'st too long William Shakespeare (?) 20 "ON A DAY, ALACK THE DAY!" 1598. From L. L. L. ON a day, alack the day! Through the velvet leaves the wind Wish'd himself the heaven's breath. Ne'er to pluck thee from thy thorn: Vow, alack, for youth unmeet; Youth so apt to pluck a sweet! Do not call it sin in me That I am forsworn for thee: Thou for whom e'en Jove would swear Juno but an Ethiope were, And deny himself for Jove, William Shakespeare. ΙΟ 20 "COME AWAY, COME AWAY, 1623. DEATH" From Twelfth Night COME away, come away, death, I am slain by a fair cruel maid. My shroud of white, stuck all with yew, My part of death, no one so true Not a flower, not a flower sweet, On my black coffin let there be strown; My poor corpse, where my bones shall A thousand thousand sighs to save, Sad true lover never find my grave, William Shakespeare. 8 16 |