SHAKESPEARE SONNET 55

**NEED SUBSCRIPTIONS, Rate, Comment, PLEASE ** WORDS & LINKS HERE for this RCITATION: Stanley Pacion reads William Shakespeare's Sonnet 55,
Not marble, nor the gilded monuments.
http://stanley.pacion.googlepages.com/homepage contains words/text for all poems, plus other images and poems. "When a child I played, entertained myself with crystal sets, later I became a ham radio operator. The fact that I now have an audience of several thousands and growing, that this audience has become increasingly world-wide, and that it hears and sees me while I read my lyric and prose is nothing short of astounding. I love my YouTube!" For this POEM ....Original BLOG LISTING 23 December 2008.

Shakespeare's Sonnet 55

Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme;
But you shall shine more bright in these contènts
Than unswept stone, besmeared with sluttish time.

When wasteful war shall statues overturn,
And broils root out the work of masonry,
Nor Mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall burn
The living record of your memory.

'Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity
Shall you pace forth; your praise shall still find room
Even in the eyes of all posterity
That wear this world out to the ending doom.

So, till the judgment that yourself arise,
You live in this, and dwell in lovers' eyes.

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[StanleyPacion]

What always surprises me about all the Shakespeare commentary is how so much of it is conjectural. I had a former professor once say that all the real information we know about Shakespeare could be put on the back of a postage stamp. What we know for sure about Shakespeare claims him to be litigatious, very interested in wealth, and often in a big hurry.

Art and character are often strange bedfellows.

[StanleyPacion]

I believe it is spelled "besmirched", nowadays! Blackened, or dirtied, or maybe tarnished, that is the over all effect of time and Shakespeare always seems keenly aware of how time ravishes in his sonnets. Thanks, Keep in touch, Stanley

[Kesinji]

Besmerched?