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 from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee.
Photographed this morning in the countryside,
40 miles southeast of Vienna, in the Burgenland region
Images and Text © by Merisi
Lovely, Merisi! We recently got a nice fill of the Bard at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland: Henry V and Troilus and Cressida. On the way back from the theater the night we saw Henry V, I wondered aloud whether he had any idea about his genius.
ReplyDeleteWhat kind of wine do those luscious grapes make?
ReplyDeleteYUM
oh my
ReplyDeleteyes
how yummy & cool
looking!
{{ if i had to do this--->
~~compare thee to a summer's day? ~~
you might not enjoy the comparison
to
a mash of wilted lettuce...
and
yet,
over here in my HOT florida
we are melting...
{{ why oh why
am i not THERE in your cool climate
why? }}
"Light held together by water" and, at this stage, by the skin of the grape.
ReplyDeleteThis is absolutely gorgeous!!!
ReplyDeleteWhat more perfect summer feeling could one find, what more precious post to file to look upon again . . . this is so bursting with both warmth and joy . . .
ReplyDeleteGreat combination of colors, extures and focal point. Love it.
ReplyDeleteThank you all for visiting and leaving such kind comments!
ReplyDeleteCheers,
Merisi