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Love according to Shakespeare

22 Wednesday Apr 2015

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Following on from my previous thoughts. Given that I feel the world needs as much love as it can muster, I offer one of Shakespeare’s love poems that is evocative and seems sincere:

The Passionate Pilgrim

Live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove
That hills and valleys, dales and fields,
And all the craggy mountains yields.

There will we sit upon the rocks,
And see the shepherds feed their flocks,
By shallow rivers, by whose falls
Melodious birds sing madrigals.

There will I make thee a bed of roses,
With a thousand fragrant posies,
A cap of flowers, and a kirtle
Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle;

A belt of straw and ivy buds,
With coral clasps and amber studs.
And if these pleasures may thee move,
Then live with me and be my love.

William Shakespeare

Very best wishes – Denny Bradbury

The World Needs Love Just Now

18 Saturday Apr 2015

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I think that the World is in need of some TLC (tender loving care). So from the pen of Christina Rossetti here is a love poem that should gladden all our hearts:

A Birthday

My heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest is in a watered shoot;
My heart is like an apple tree
Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit;
My heart is like a rainbow shell
That paddles in a halcyon sea;
My heart is gladder than all these
Because my love is come to me.

Raise me a dais of silk and down;
Hang it with vair and purple dyes;
Carve it in doves and pomegranates,
And peacocks with a hundred eyes;
Work it in gold and silver grapes,
In leaves, and silver fleurs-de-lys;
Because the birthday of my life
Is come, my love is come to me.

Christina Rossetti

Very best wishes – Denny Bradbury