Shakespeare Poems - Poems about Shakespeare

The love that knows no boundary set by clan; The clans that know no love except for war; The flower that dares to bloom, but never can; This then the story Shakespeare told, in core. And what the nature of a petty feud? Where pride replaces peaceful, prosperous life; Where little things as mountains are construed, And things far greater die within...

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Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. Lord Polonius to Laertes - Hamlet, Act 1 Scene 3 your magnitude of desire is an ocean that can only be scantily filled. the vendors cast a net to trap thee into their web of deceit. you crave for fashion far...

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Thus said Shakespeare " in poetry nothing is created everything is copied " PS. Thus he was known, he said that in a certain way he plagiarized verses, because everything had already been thought before by someone else......

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Quote from Berowne in "As You Like It" "And I, forsooth, in love!". Now Shakespeare speaking with his good friend Richard Burbage..... I must tell you forsooth of my midsummer dream a witch conjures bluetooth her thoughts an air stream oh crucify me not t'is just a fantasy and a wonderous plot for some more alchemy my very dear Burbage this bluetooth will be...

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“Brevity is the soul of wit.” Shakespeare (from Hamlet, Act 2, scene 2) Succinctness must be kin to wit. In his own way, Shakespeare said it, so why use words to flutter and flit. I’ll finish right here and click submit. ...

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“Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.” Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Waiting for the dentist’s assessment of my implant screw. I watch Dogwood buds on dry branches rattle on the window pane. Why did Shakespeare’s quote pop into my head right then? while wondering if the bone graft grew, ‘every...

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“Out of my sight! Thou dost infect mine eyes.” ? William Shakespeare, Richard III Why, oh why I can’t lie I let you get too close And I got pink eye! ...

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Heir on Fire by Michael R. Burch I wanted to be Shelley’s heir, Just fourteen years old, and consumed by desire. Why wouldn’t my Muse play fair? I went to work—pale, laden with care: why wouldn’t the words do as I aspired, when I wanted to Keats’s heir? My verse seemed neither here nor there. How the hell did Sappho tune her lyre? And...

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The world's greatest dramatist, The world's greatest sonnet writer of all time, The man with supreme knowledge, The man with a genius brain, Many writers may come and go, Yet none can exceed the pinnacle of his genius. Writing plays dealing with the themes of human life, He was the one who was close to people's hearts, Few called him mad, but he...

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When Shakespeare was in school learning his grammar, under his breath, you could sometimes hear him stammer, "Who are these fools who teach you to write by these rules? They might as well teach you how to screw in a screw with a hammer!"...

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I wonder. I wonder what will happen when all the English dictionaries are burnt and Shakespeare is abolished as FAR RIGHT and Racist, and when the Beatles are vilified for 'She Loves You' when it should have been 'they them love you'. When the battle of Britain Begs an unreserved apology. When the British inventions Are cast aside...

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This poem was mused by: "Shakespeare won't look at me" by ThomasW.Case ----------------------------------- -------------­------------------- We fill our lives with work and stress in the lust for new possessions we're taught that this is called success and it makes for good impressions But pleasures we’re taught to suppress so our souls will fly up to the heavens but this flesh that god has gifted...

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I sometimes wonder who was there the day Shakespeare finished writing King Lear. Was he at home with his Annie? Or was he drunk off his fanny in the Tabard Inn, stroking the dark lady's hair? ...

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Ever So-High, I AM Ever So-Bright I AM Ever Luminous like Jasmine and Star Lights, Rising through Wisdom above the Enchantments of Night ZIN URU, Wings Wide In Stellar Flight...

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There’re so many sad love poems around here. If you guys need help negotiating love’s slippery slope, let me offer you, your own, romantic horoscope!: Don’t court romantic disaster don’t mistake a lightbulb for the moon Titanic wasn't a rom com and a sad update: Grand romantic gestures don’t happen anymore, you're lucky to get a vibration in our pocket with a "sorry"...

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