What is your favorite Shakespeare sonnet?

[helena]

Do your kids have a fav?

 

 

 

 

Thanks!  :lurk5:

 

[theYoungerMrsWarde]

I chose "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?" (18) to memorize in Shakespeare English class sr. year of high school. As part of it we had to not just be able to recite it to the class, but also write it out with perfect spelling and punctuation. I think it stuck much longer because of that second part.

 

 

ETA: And here's David Tennat (the 10th Doctor) reciting it in his original Scottish accent!

http://pinterest.com/pin/258675572317802534/

[JessReplanted]

Sonnet 116

 

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! It is an ever-fixèd mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.^[1]

 

^{*This is my favorite. My kids have not gotten to Shakespeare yet.}

[Entropymama]

130!

 

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks; 
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:
   And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
   As any she belied with false compare.

 

Here's Catherine Tate reciting it (at the end) 

[Deee]

We read Sonnet 116 at our wedding.  Its my favourite

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[Catherine]

Sonnet 116

 

Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Admit impediments. Love is not love

Which alters when it alteration finds,

Or bends with the remover to remove:

O no! It is an ever-fixèd mark

That looks on tempests and is never shaken;

It is the star to every wandering bark,

Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks

Within his bending sickle's compass come:

Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,

But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

If this be error and upon me proved,

I never writ, nor no man ever loved.^%5B1%5D

 

^{*This is my favorite. My kids have not gotten to Shakespeare yet.}

Mine too!

 

We read Sonnet 116 at our wedding.  Its my favourite

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Same here! I got a calligrapher to make it for me with a pretty vine border and it's framed, hanging next to our bed.

[helena]

Catherine Tate is so funny!

 

I'm starting to realize I've made a mistake, not adding Shakespeare to our poetry memory work. I have one going into high school, that gives my 4 years...

Haha! Nothing like (premature) failure panic to make things happen.  :willy_nilly:

 

 

[Guest smith_emma]

My favorite is 

'Let Me Not To The Marriage Of True Minds'