tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31196620.post116306189447038987..comments2023-09-16T16:59:28.429+01:00Comments on A Life in the South of France: My Favourite Play...angelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10966015443364053559noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31196620.post-1163160007169275022006-11-10T13:00:00.000+01:002006-11-10T13:00:00.000+01:00I've just been inspired to open my very well thumb...I've just been inspired to open my very well thumbed (and annotated) copy of Macbeth, just to reread that monologue. Oh, the memories...<BR/><BR/>My favourite Shakespeare, however, is Sonnet 116: <BR/><BR/>Let me not to the marriage of true minds<BR/>Admit impediments. Love is not love<BR/>Which alters when it alteration finds,<BR/>Or bends with the remover to remove:<BR/>O no! it is an ever-fixed mark<BR/>That looks on tempests and is never shaken;<BR/>It is the star to every wandering bark,<BR/>Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.<BR/>Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks<BR/>Within his bending sickle's compass come:<BR/>Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,<BR/>But bears it out even to the edge of doom.<BR/>If this be error and upon me proved,<BR/>I never writ, nor no man ever loved.<BR/><BR/>A favourite for rather soppy and sentimental reasons, but a favourite all the same.<BR/><BR/>Good luck with November.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31196620.post-1163085885737925932006-11-09T16:24:00.000+01:002006-11-09T16:24:00.000+01:00My Favourite PoemRoses are redViolets are blueI de...<B>My Favourite Poem</B><BR/><BR/>Roses are red<BR/>Violets are blue<BR/>I detest Shaykespeere<BR/>How about you ?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31196620.post-1163084498429102662006-11-09T16:01:00.000+01:002006-11-09T16:01:00.000+01:00Hi Angela:Tried to send you this as an e-mail but ...Hi Angela:<BR/><BR/>Tried to send you this as an e-mail but it bounced back:<BR/><BR/>Oh, dear. I didn't mean that poems shouldn't be posted! (see last post<BR/>in comments from yesterday).<BR/><BR/>Since I'm in publishing and Mary Oliver is alive, I couldn't help<BR/>sending an e-mail to her publisher, who was very propietary about the<BR/>whole business. I'm sure if I had just posted it (which I may anyway)<BR/>it would have been just fine.<BR/><BR/>Please don't let me stop you from posting any poems you want! I was<BR/>just writing about my own reticence, not trying to quell you!tut-tuthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15713003038275525797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31196620.post-1163082891630082112006-11-09T15:34:00.000+01:002006-11-09T15:34:00.000+01:00My favorite scene comes from Midsummer's nights dr...My favorite scene comes from Midsummer's nights dream:<BR/><BR/>If we shadows have offended,<BR/>Think but this, and all is mended,<BR/>That you have but slumber'd here<BR/>While these visions did appear.<BR/>And this weak and idle theme,<BR/>No more yielding but a dream,<BR/>Gentles, do not reprehend:<BR/>if you pardon, we will mend:<BR/>And, as I am an honest Puck,<BR/>If we have unearned luck<BR/>Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue,<BR/>We will make amends ere long;<BR/>Else the Puck a liar call;<BR/>So, good night unto you all.<BR/>Give me your hands, if we be friends,<BR/>And Robin shall restore amends.<BR/><BR/>We actually had it in our wedding.<BR/><BR/>I really like your blog, btw - good job with the november blogging and all.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com