Poetry Performed Episode 026 - Sonnet 98 by William Shakespeare

Episode 026 - Sonnet 98 by William Shakespeare
This week, I turn towards my own theatrical roots with William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 98.

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Sonnet 98 by William Shakespeare

From you have I been absent in the spring,

When proud-pied April, dressed in all his trim,

Hath put a spirit of youth in everything,

That heavy Saturn laughed and leaped with him.

Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smell

Of different flowers in odour and in hue,

Could make me any summer’s story tell,

Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew:

Nor did I wonder at the lily’s white,

Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose;

They were but sweet, but figures of delight

Drawn after you, – you pattern of all those.

Yet seem’d it winter still, and, you away,

As with your shadow I with these did play.

That was Sonnet 98 by William Shakespeare. William Shakespeare is recognized as one of the greatest dramatists in the English language. Wildly inventive with language, he invented some of the most commonly used phrases we know today. While there are plenty of theories that people other than Shakespeare actually wrote his plays, it is the belief of this podcast that people of common roots, like Shakespeare, can be capable of extraordinary things.

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