The Blossom
On a day—alack the day!
Love, whose month is ever May,
Spied a blossom passing fair
Playing in the wanton air:
Through the velvet leaves the wind
All unseen 'gan passage find;
That the lover, sick to death,
Wish'd himself the heaven's breath.
Air, quoth he, thy cheeks may blow;
Air, would I might triumph so!
But, alack, my hand is sworn
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 Ethiop were;
And deny himself for Jove,
Turning mortal for thy love.
William Shakespeare
Absence
Being your slave, what should I do but tend
Upon the hours and times of your desire?
I have no precious time at all to spend
Nor services to do, til you require:
Nor dare I chide the world-without-end-hour
Whilst I, my sovereign, watch the clock for you,
Nor think the bitterness of absence sour
When you have bid your servant once adieu:
Nor dare I question with my jealous thought
Where you may be, or your affairs suppose,
But like a sad slave, stay and think of nought
Save, where you are, how happy you make those;
So true a fool is Love, that in your will
Though you do anything, he thinks no ill.
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare Quotes From Plays:
The Merchant of Venice:
If you prick us, do we not bleed?
If you tickle us, do we not laugh?
If you poison us, do we not die?
And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
William Shakespeare
Hamlet:
The play 's the thing wherein I'll
catch the conscience of the king.
William Shakespeare
King Lear:
How sharper than a serpent's tooth
it is to have a thankless child!
William Shakespeare
Taming of the Shrew:
Out of the jaws of death.
William Shakespeare
Antony and Cleopatra:
My salad days,
when I was green in judgment.
William Shakespeare
Othello:
To mourn a mischief that is past and gone
is the next way to draw new mischief on.
William Shakespeare
The Tempest:
We are such stuff as dreams are made on,
rounded with a little sleep.
William Shakespeare
Taming of the Shrew:
I 'll not budge an inch.
William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet:
O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
Good Night, Good night! Parting is
such sweet sorrow, that I shall say
good night till it be morrow
William Shakespeare
Julius Caesar:
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him
William Shakespeare
Macbeth:
Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood
clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making
the green one red.
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The most important thing a father can do
for his children is to love their mother.
- Theodore M. Hesburgh
