Tuesday 31 July 2012

A Summer's Day
So lovely and so temperate


Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee.


Photographed this morning in the countryside,
40 miles southeast of Vienna, in the Burgenland region
Images and Text © by Merisi

8 comments:

  1. Lovely, Merisi! We recently got a nice fill of the Bard at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland: Henry V and Troilus and Cressida. On the way back from the theater the night we saw Henry V, I wondered aloud whether he had any idea about his genius.

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  2. What kind of wine do those luscious grapes make?
    YUM

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  3. oh my
    yes
    how yummy & cool
    looking!

    {{ if i had to do this--->
    ~~compare thee to a summer's day? ~~

    you might not enjoy the comparison
    to
    a mash of wilted lettuce...

    and
    yet,
    over here in my HOT florida
    we are melting...



    {{ why oh why
    am i not THERE in your cool climate

    why? }}

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  4. "Light held together by water" and, at this stage, by the skin of the grape.

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  5. This is absolutely gorgeous!!!

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  6. What more perfect summer feeling could one find, what more precious post to file to look upon again . . . this is so bursting with both warmth and joy . . .

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  7. Great combination of colors, extures and focal point. Love it.

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  8. Thank you all for visiting and leaving such kind comments!
    Cheers,
    Merisi

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