incomparable till today. My first acquaintance with him was the sonnet
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day. Since then, his works have
never stopped fascinating me. This excerpt from Romeo and Juliet
for example, is a sonnet, in a form of a conversation between
Romeo and Juliet after meeting each other for the first time.
ROMEO [To JULIET.]
93
If I profane with my unworthiest hand 94
This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this: 95
My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand 96
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.
JULIET 97
Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much, 98
Which mannerly devotion shows in this; 99
For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch, 100
And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss.
ROMEO101
Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?
JULIET102
Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.
ROMEO103
O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do; 104
They pray — grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.
JULIET105
Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake.
ROMEO106
Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take.
Yes, the poem is about Romeo asking Juliet's permission to
kiss her, but I am really amazed with the analogy, as if Juliet
is a shrine, and he is a pilgrim.
Simply amazing and romantic <3<3
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