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Dane's BrainSonnet 75 by William Shakespeareliteratureoutloud.comSonnet LXXVby William ShakespeareSo are you to my thoughts as food to life,Or as sweet-season'd showers are to the ground;And for the peace of you I hold such strifeAs 'twixt a miser and his wealth is found;Now proud as an enjoyer and anonDoubting the filching age will steal his treasure,Now counting best to be with you alone,Then better'd that the world may see my pleasure;Sometime a...
2022-06-2801 min
Dane's BrainSonnet 74 by William Shakespeareliteratureoutloud.comSonnet LXXVIVby William ShakespeareBut be contented: when that fell arrestWithout all bail shall carry me away,My life hath in this line some interest,Which for memorial still with thee shall stay.When thou reviewest this, thou dost reviewThe very part was consecrate to thee:The earth can have but earth, which is his due;My spirit is thine, the better part of me:So then thou hast but lost the dr...
2022-06-2701 min
Dane's BrainSonnet 73 by William Shakespeareliteratureoutloud.comSonnet LXXIIIby William ShakespeareThat time of year thou mayst in me beholdWhen yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hangUpon those boughs which shake against the cold,Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.In me thou seest the twilight of such dayAs after sunset fadeth in the west,Which by and by black night doth take away,Death's second self, that seals up all in rest.
2022-06-1701 min
Dane's BrainSonnet 72 by William Shakespeareliteratureoutloud.comSonnet LXXIIby William ShakespeareO, lest the world should task you to reciteWhat merit lived in me, that you should loveAfter my death, dear love, forget me quite,For you in me can nothing worthy prove;Unless you would devise some virtuous lie,To do more for me than mine own desert,And hang more praise upon deceased IThan niggard truth would willingly impart:O, lest your true love may seem f...
2022-05-2801 min
Dane's BrainSonnet 71 by William Shakespeareliteratureoutloud.comSonnet LXXIby William ShakespeareNo longer mourn for me when I am deadThen you shall hear the surly sullen bellGive warning to the world that I am fledFrom this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell:Nay, if you read this line, remember notThe hand that writ it; for I love you soThat I in your sweet thoughts would be forgotIf thinking on me then should make you woe.
2022-05-2402 min
Dane's BrainSonnet 70 by William ShakespeareSonnet LXXby William ShakespeareThat thou art blamed shall not be thy defect,For slander's mark was ever yet the fair;The ornament of beauty is suspect,A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air.So thou be good, slander doth but approveThy worth the greater, being woo'd of time;For canker vice the sweetest buds doth love,And thou present'st a pure unstained prime.Thou hast pass'd by the ambush of young days,Either...
2022-05-2201 min
Dane's BrainSonnet 69 by William Shakespeareliteratureoutloud.comSonnet LXIXby William ShakespeareThose parts of thee that the world's eye doth viewWant nothing that the thought of hearts can mend;All tongues, the voice of souls, give thee that due,Uttering bare truth, even so as foes commend.Thy outward thus with outward praise is crown'd;But those same tongues that give thee so thine ownIn other accents do this praise confoundBy seeing farther than the eye hath shown.
2022-05-2101 min
Dane's BrainSonnet 68 by William Shakespeareliteratureoutloud.comClick here for a complete INDEXSonnet LXVIIIby William ShakespeareThus is his cheek the map of days outworn,When beauty lived and died as flowers do now,Before the b*****d signs of fair were born,Or durst inhabit on a living brow;Before the golden tresses of the dead,The right of sepulchres, were shorn away,To live a second life on second head;Ere beauty's dead fleece made another...
2022-05-2001 min
Dane's BrainSonnet 67 by William Shakespeareliteratureoutloud.comliteratureoutloud.comSonnet LXVIIby William ShakespeareAh! Wherefore with infection should he live,And with his presence grace impiety,That sin by him advantage should achieveAnd lace itself with his society?Why should false painting imitate his cheekAnd steal dead seeing of his living hue?Why should poor beauty indirectly seekRoses of shadow, since his rose is true?Why should he live, now Nature bankrupt is,
2022-05-1901 min
Dane's BrainSonnet 66 by William Shakespeareliteratureoutloud.comSonnet LXVIby William ShakespeareTired with all these, for restful death I cry,As, to behold desert a beggar born,And needy nothing trimm'd in jollity,And purest faith unhappily forsworn,And gilded honor shamefully misplaced,And maiden virtue rudely strumpeted,And right perfection wrongfully disgraced,And strength by limping sway disabled,And art made tongue-tied by authority,And folly doctor-like controlling skill,And simple truth miscall'd simplicity,...
2022-05-1801 min
Dane's BrainSonnet 65 by William Shakespeareliteratureoutloud.comSonnet LXVby William ShakespeareSince brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,But sad mortality o'er-sways their power,How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea,Whose action is no stronger than a flower?O, how shall summer's honey breath hold outAgainst the wreckful siege of battering days,When rocks impregnable are not so stout,Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays?O fearful meditation! Where, alack,...
2022-05-1701 min
Dane's BrainSonnet 64 by William Shakespeareliteratureoutloud.comSonnet LXIVby William ShakespeareWhen I have seen by Time's fell hand defacedThe rich proud cost of outworn buried age;When sometime lofty towers I see down-razedAnd brass eternal slave to mortal rage;When I have seen the hungry ocean gainAdvantage on the kingdom of the shore,And the firm soil win of the watery main,Increasing store with loss and loss with store;When I have seen such interchange of...
2022-05-1601 min
Dane's BrainSonnet 63 by William Shakespeareliteratureoutloud.comliteratureoutloudSonnet LXIIIby William ShakespeareAgainst my love shall be, as I am now,With Time's injurious hand crush'd and o'er-worn;When hours have drain'd his blood and fill'd his browWith lines and wrinkles; when his youthful mornHath travell'd on to age's steepy night,And all those beauties whereof now he's kingAre vanishing or vanish'd out of sight,Stealing away the treasure of his spring;For such a...
2022-05-1501 min
Dane's BrainSonnet 62 by William Shakespeareliteratureoutloud.comSonnet LXIIby William ShakespeareSin of self-love possesseth all mine eyeAnd all my soul and all my every part;And for this sin there is no remedy,It is so grounded inward in my heart.Methinks no face so gracious is as mine,No shape so true, no truth of such account;And for myself mine own worth do define,As I all other in all worths surmount.But when my glass shows...
2022-05-1301 min
Dane's BrainSonnet 61 by William Shakespeareliteratureoutloud.comSonnet LXIby William ShakespeareIs it thy will thy image should keep openMy heavy eyelids to the weary night?Dost thou desire my slumbers should be broken,While shadows like to thee do mock my sight?Is it thy spirit that thou send'st from theeSo far from home into my deeds to pry,To find out shames and idle hours in me,The scope and tenor of thy jealousy?O, no! Thy lo...
2022-05-1201 min
Dane's BrainSonnet Sixty by William Shakespeareliteratureoutloud.comSonnet LXby William ShakespeareLike as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,So do our minutes hasten to their end;Each changing place with that which goes before,In sequent toil all forwards do contend.Nativity, once in the main of light,Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crown'd,Crooked elipses 'gainst his glory fight,And Time that gave doth now his gift confound.Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth...
2022-05-0901 min
Dane's BrainSonnet 59 by William Shakespeareliteratureoutloud.comSonnet LIXby William ShakespeareIf there be nothing new, but that which isHath been before, how are our brains beguiled,Which, laboring for invention, bear amissThe second burden of a former child!O, that record could with a backward look,Even of five hundred courses of the sun,Show me your image in some antique book,Since mind at first in character was done!That I might see what the...
2022-05-0601 min
Dane's BrainSonnet 58 by William Shakespeareliteratureoutloud.comSonnet LVIIIby William ShakespeareThat God forbid that made me first your slave,I should in thought control your times of pleasure,Or at your hand the account of hours to crave,Being your vassal, bound to stay your leisure!O, let me suffer, being at your beck,The imprison'd absence of your liberty;And patience, tame to sufferance, bide each cheque,Without accusing you of injury.Be where you list, your...
2022-05-0501 min
Dane's BrainSonnet 57 by William Shakespeareliteratureoutloud.comSonnet LVIIby William ShakespeareBeing your slave, what should I do but tendUpon the hours and times of your desire?I have no precious time at all to spend,Nor services to do, till you require.Nor dare I chide the world-without-end hourWhilst I, my sovereign, watch the clock for you,Nor think the bitterness of absence sourWhen you have bid your servant once adieu;Nor dare I question...
2022-05-0401 min
Dane's BrainSonnet 56 by William Shakespeareliteratureoutloud.comSonnet LVIby William ShakespeareSweet love, renew thy force; be it not saidThy edge should blunter be than appetite,Which but to-day by feeding is allay'd,To-morrow sharpen'd in his former might:So, love, be thou; although to-day thou fillThy hungry eyes even till they wink with fullness,To-morrow see again, and do not killThe spirit of love with a perpetual dullness.Let this sad interim like the ocean be
2022-05-0301 min
Dane's BrainSonnet 55 by William Shakespearedaneallred.comSonnet LVby William ShakespeareNot marble, nor the gilded monumentsOf princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme;But you shall shine more bright in these contentsThan unswept stone besmear'd with sluttish time.When wasteful war shall statues overturn,And broils root out the work of masonry,Nor Mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall burnThe living record of your memory.'Gainst death and all-oblivious enmityShall you pace forth...
2022-05-0201 min
Dane's BrainSonnet 54 by William Shakespeareliteratureoutloud.comSonnet LIVby William ShakespeareO, how much more doth beauty beauteous seemBy that sweet ornament which truth doth give!The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deemFor that sweet odor which doth in it live.The canker-blooms have full as deep a dyeAs the perfumed tincture of the roses,Hang on such thorns and play as wantonlyWhen summer's breath their masked buds discloses:But, for their virtue...
2022-05-0101 min
Dane's BrainSonnet 53 by William Shakespeareliteratureoutloud.comSonnet LIIIby William ShakespeareWhat is your substance, whereof are you made,That millions of strange shadows on you tend?Since every one hath, every one, one shade,And you, but one, can every shadow lend.Describe Adonis, and the counterfeitIs poorly imitated after you;On Helen's cheek all art of beauty set,And you in Grecian tires are painted new:Speak of the spring and foison of the year;
2022-04-3001 min
Dane's BrainSonnet 52 by William Shakespeareliteratureoutloud.comSonnet LIIby William ShakespeareSo am I as the rich, whose blessed keyCan bring him to his sweet up-locked treasure,The which he will not every hour survey,For blunting the fine point of seldom pleasure.Therefore are feasts so solemn and so rare,Since, seldom coming, in the long year set,Like stones of worth they thinly placed are,Or captain jewels in the carcanet.So is the...
2022-04-2901 min
Dane's BrainSonnet 51 by William Shakespeareliteratureoutloud.comSonnet LIby William ShakespeareThus can my love excuse the slow offenseOf my dull bearer when from thee I speed:From where thou art why should I haste me thence?Till I return, of posting is no need.O, what excuse will my poor beast then find,When swift extremity can seem but slow?Then should I spur, though mounted on the wind;In winged speed no motion shall I know:Then can...
2022-04-2801 min
Dane's BrainSonnet 50 by William Shakespeareliteratureoutloud.comSonnet Lby William ShakespeareHow heavy do I journey on the way,When what I seek, my weary travel's end,Doth teach that ease and that repose to say'Thus far the miles are measured from thy friend!'The beast that bears me, tired with my woe,Plods dully on, to bear that weight in me,As if by some instinct the wretch did knowHis rider loved not speed, being made from thee:
2022-04-2701 min
Dane's BrainSonnet 49 by William Shakespeareliteratureoutloud.comSonnet XLIXby William ShakespeareAgainst that time, if ever that time come,When I shall see thee frown on my defects,When as thy love hath cast his utmost sum,Call'd to that audit by advised respects;Against that time when thou shalt strangely passAnd scarcely greet me with that sun thine eye,When love, converted from the thing it was,Shall reasons find of settled gravity,--Against that time...
2022-04-2601 min
Dane's BrainSonnet 48 by William Shakespeareliteratureoutloud.comSonnet XLVIIIby William ShakespaeareHow careful was I, when I took my way,Each trifle under truest bars to thrust,That to my use it might unused stayFrom hands of falsehood, in sure wards of trust!But thou, to whom my jewels trifles are,Most worthy of comfort, now my greatest grief,Thou, best of dearest and mine only care,Art left the prey of every vulgar thief.Thee have I...
2022-04-2501 min
Dane's BrainSonnet 47 by William ShakespeareSonnet XLVIIby William ShakespeareBetwixt mine eye and heart a league is took,And each doth good turns now unto the other:When that mine eye is famish'd for a look,Or heart in love with sighs himself doth smother,With my love's picture then my eye doth feastAnd to the painted banquet bids my heart;Another time mine eye is my heart's guestAnd in his thoughts of love doth share a part:So, either by...
2022-04-2401 min
Dane's BrainSonnet 46 by William Shakespeareliteratureoutloud.commuch more Literature Out Loud at daneallred.comSonnet XLVIby William ShakespeareMine eye and heart are at a mortal warHow to divide the conquest of thy sight;Mine eye my heart thy picture's sight would bar,My heart mine eye the freedom of that right.My heart doth plead that thou in him dost lie--A closet never pierced with crystal eyes--But the defendant doth that plea denyAnd...
2022-04-2101 min
Dane's BrainSonnet 45 by William Shakespeareliteratureoutloud.commuch more Literature Out Loud at daneallred.comSonnet XLVby William ShakespeareThe other two, slight air and purging fire,Are both with thee, wherever I abide;The first my thought, the other my desire,These present-absent with swift motion slide.For when these quicker elements are goneIn tender embassy of love to thee,My life, being made of four, with two aloneSinks down to death, oppress'd with melancholy;
2022-04-2001 min
Dane's BrainSonnet 44 by William Shakespeareliteratureoutloud.commuch more Literature Out Loud at daneallred.comSonnet XVIVby William ShakespeareIf the dull substance of my flesh were thought,Injurious distance should not stop my way;For then despite of space I would be brought,From limits far remote where thou dost stay.No matter then although my foot did standUpon the farthest earth removed from thee;For nimble thought can jump both sea and landAs soon as...
2022-04-1901 min
Dane's BrainSonnet 43 by William Shakespeareliteratureoutloud.commuch more Literature Out Loud at daneallred.comSonnet XLIIIby William ShakespeareWhen most I wink, then do mine eyes best see,For all the day they view things unrespected;But when I sleep, in dreams they look on thee,And darkly bright are bright in dark directed.Then thou, whose shadow shadows doth make bright,How would thy shadow's form form happy showTo the clear day with thy much clearer light,
2022-04-1801 min
Dane's BrainSonnet 42 by William Shakespearewww.literatureoutloud.commuch more Literature Out Loud at daneallred.comSonnet XLIIby William ShakespeareThat thou hast her, it is not all my grief,And yet it may be said I loved her dearly;That she hath thee, is of my wailing chief,A loss in love that touches me more nearly.Loving offenders, thus I will excuse ye:Thou dost love her, because thou knowst I love her;And for my sake...
2022-04-1601 min
Dane's BrainSonnet 41 by William Shakespearemuch more Literature Out Loud at daneallred.comSonnet XLIby William ShakespeareThose petty wrongs that liberty commits,When I am sometime absent from thy heart,Thy beauty and thy years full well befits,For still temptation follows where thou art.Gentle thou art and therefore to be won,Beauteous thou art, therefore to be assailed;And when a woman woos, what woman's sonWill sourly leave her till she have prevailed?Ay me...
2022-04-1301 min
Dane's BrainSonnet 40 by William Shakespearemuch more Literature Out Loud at daneallred.comSonnet XLby William ShakespeareTake all my loves, my love, yea, take them all;What hast thou then more than thou hadst before?No love, my love, that thou mayst true love call;All mine was thine before thou hadst this more.Then if for my love thou my love receivest,I cannot blame thee for my love thou usest;But yet be blamed, if thou thyself deceivest...
2022-04-1201 min
Dane's BrainSonnet 39 by William Shakespearemuch more Literature Out Loud at daneallred.comSonnet XXXIXby William ShakespeareO, how thy worth with manners may I sing,When thou art all the better part of me?What can mine own praise to mine own self bring?And what is't but mine own when I praise thee?Even for this let us divided live,And our dear love lose name of single one,That by this separation I may giveThat due to...
2022-04-1101 min
Dane's BrainSonnet 38 by William Shakespearemuch more Literature Out Loud at daneallred.comSonnet XXXVIIIby William ShakespeareHow can my Muse want subject to invent,While thou dost breathe, that pour'st into my verseThine own sweet argument, too excellentFor every vulgar paper to rehearse?O, give thyself the thanks, if aught in meWorthy perusal stand against thy sight;For who's so dumb that cannot write to thee,When thou thyself dost give invention light?Be thou...
2022-04-1001 min
Dane's BrainSonnet 37 by William Shakespearemuch more Literature Out Loud at daneallred.comSonnet XXXVIIby William ShakespeareAs a decrepit father takes delightTo see his active child do deeds of youth,So I, made lame by fortune's dearest spite,Take all my comfort of thy worth and truth.For whether beauty, birth, or wealth, or wit,Or any of these all, or all, or more,Entitled in thy parts do crowned sit,I make my love engrafted to this store:
2022-04-0901 min
Dane's BrainSonnet 36 by William Shakespearemuch more Literature Out Loud at daneallred.comSonnet XXXVIby William ShakespeareLet me confess that we two must be twain,Although our undivided loves are one:So shall those blots that do with me remainWithout thy help by me be borne alone.In our two loves there is but one respect,Though in our lives a separable spite,Which though it alter not love's sole effect,Yet doth it steal sweet hours from love's...
2022-04-0801 min
Dane's BrainSonnet 35 by William Shakespearemuch more Literature Out Loud at daneallred.comSonnet XXXVby William ShakespeareNo more be grieved at that which thou hast done:Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud;Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun,And loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.All men make faults, and even I in this,Authorizing thy trespass with compare,Myself corrupting, salving thy amiss,Excusing thy sins more than thy sins are;For to thy s...
2022-04-0701 min
Dane's BrainSonnet 34 by William Shakespearemuch more Literature Out Loud at daneallred.comSonnet XXXIVby William ShakespeareWhy didst thou promise such a beauteous day,And make me travel forth without my cloak,To let base clouds o'ertake me in my way,Hiding thy bravery in their rotten smoke?'Tis not enough that through the cloud thou break,To dry the rain on my storm-beaten face,For no man well of such a salve can speakThat...
2022-04-0601 min
Dane's BrainSonnet 33 by William Shakespearemuch more Literature Out Loud at daneallred.comSonnet XXXIIIby William ShakespeareFull many a glorious morning have I seenFlatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye,Kissing with golden face the meadows green,Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy;Anon permit the basest clouds to rideWith ugly rack on his celestial face,And from the forlorn world his visage hide,Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace:Even so my sun one early...
2022-04-0501 min
Dane's BrainSonnet 32 by William Shakespearemuch more Literature Out Loud at daneallred.comSonnet XXXIIby William ShakespeareIf thou survive my well-contented day,When that churl Death my bones with dust shall cover,And shalt by fortune once more re-surveyThese poor rude lines of thy deceased lover,Compare them with the bettering of the time,And though they be outstripp'd by every pen,Reserve them for my love, not for their rhyme,Exceeded by the height of happier men.
2022-04-0401 min
Dane's BrainSonnet 30 by William Shakespearemuch more Literature Out Loud at daneallred.comSonnet XXXIby William ShakespeareThy bosom is endeared with all hearts,Which I by lacking have supposed dead,And there reigns love and all love's loving parts,And all those friends which I thought buried.How many a holy and obsequious tearHath dear religious love stol'n from mine eyeAs interest of the dead, which now appearBut things removed that hidden in thee lie!...
2022-04-0301 min
Dane's BrainSonnet 30much more Literature Out Loud at daneallred.comSonnet XXXby William ShakespeareWhen to the sessions of sweet silent thoughtI summon up remembrance of things past,I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste:Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow,For precious friends hid in death's dateless night,And weep afresh love's long since cancell'd woe,And moan the expense...
2022-04-0201 min
Dane's BrainSonnet 29 by William ShakespeareSonnet XXIXby William ShakespeareWhen, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes,I all alone beweep my outcast stateAnd trouble deaf heaven with my bootless criesAnd look upon myself and curse my fate,Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,Featured like him, like him with friends possess'd,Desiring this man's art and that man's scope,With what I most enjoy contented least;Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,Haply I...
2022-04-0101 min
Dane's BrainSonnet 28 by William Shakespearemuch more Literature Out Loud at daneallred.comSonnet XXVIIIby William ShakespeareHow can I then return in happy plight,That am debarr'd the benefit of rest?When day's oppression is not eased by night,But day by night, and night by day, oppress'd?And each, though enemies to either's reign,Do in consent shake hands to torture me;The one by toil, the other to complainHow far I toil, still farther off from thee.
2022-03-3101 min
Dane's BrainSonnet 27 by William Shakespearemuch more Literature Out Loud at daneallred.comClick here for a complete INDEXSonnet XXVIIby William ShakespeareWeary with toil, I haste me to my bed,The dear repose for limbs with travel tired;But then begins a journey in my head,To work my mind, when body's work's expired:For then my thoughts, from far where I abide,Intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee,And keep my drooping eyelids open wide,Looking...
2022-03-3001 min
Dane's BrainSonnet 26 by William Shakespearemuch more Literature Out Loud at daneallred.comSonnet XXVIby William ShakespeareLord of my love, to whom in vassalageThy merit hath my duty strongly knit,To thee I send this written embassage,To witness duty, not to show my wit:Duty so great, which wit so poor as mineMay make seem bare, in wanting words to show it,But that I hope some good conceit of thineIn thy soul's thought, all naked...
2022-03-2801 min
Dane's BrainSonnet 25 by William Shakespearemuch more Literature Out Loud at daneallred.comSonnet 25Let those who are in favour with their starsOf public honour and proud titles boast,Whilst I, whom fortune of such triumph bars,Unlook'd for joy in that I honour most.Great princes' favourites their fair leaves spreadBut as the marigold at the sun's eye,And in themselves their pride lies buried,For at a frown they in their glory die.The painful warrior famoused for...
2022-03-2701 min
Dane's BrainSonnet 24 by William Shakespearemuch more Literature Out Loud at daneallred.comSONNET XXIV by William ShakespeareMine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stell'dThy beauty's form in table of my heart;My body is the frame wherein 'tis held,And perspective it is the painter's art.For through the painter must you see his skill,To find where your true image pictured lies;Which in my bosom's shop is hanging still,That hath his windows glazed with thine eyes.
2022-03-2601 min
Dane's BrainSonnet 23 by William Shakespearemuch more Literature Out Loud at daneallred.comSonnet XXIIIby William ShakespeareAs an unperfect actor on the stage,Who with his fear is put beside his part,Or some fierce thing replete with too much rage,Whose strength's abundance weakens his own heart;So I, for fear of trust, forget to sayThe perfect ceremony of love's rite,And in mine own love's strength seem to decay,O'ercharged with burthen of mine own love's might.
2022-03-2501 min
Dane's BrainSonnet 22 by William Shakespearemuch more Literature Out Loud at daneallred.comSonnet XXIIby William ShakespeareMy glass shall not persuade me I am old,So long as youth and thou are of one date;But when in thee time's furrows I behold,Then look I death my days should expiate.For all that beauty that doth cover thee,Is but the seemly raiment of my heart,Which in thy breast doth live, as thine in me:How can I t...
2022-03-2401 min
Dane's BrainSonnet 21 by William Shakespearemuch more Literature Out Loud at daneallred.comSonnet XXIby William ShakespeareSo is it not with me as with that MuseStirr'd by a painted beauty to his verse,Who heaven itself for ornament doth useAnd every fair with his fair doth rehearseMaking a couplement of proud compare,With sun and moon, with earth and sea's rich gems,With April's first-born flowers, and all things rareThat heaven's air in this huge rondure h...
2022-03-2301 min
Dane's BrainSonnet 20 by William Shakespearemuch more Literature Out Loud at daneallred.comSonnet XXby William ShakespeareA woman's face with Nature's own hand paintedHast thou, the master-mistress of my passion;A woman's gentle heart, but not acquaintedWith shifting change, as is false women's fashion;An eye more bright than theirs, less false in rolling,Gilding the object whereupon it gazeth;A man in hue, all 'hues' in his controlling,Much steals men's eyes and women's souls amazeth.
2022-03-2201 min
Dane's BrainSonnet 19 by William Shakespearemuch more Literature Out Loud at daneallred.comSonnet XIXby William ShakespeareDevouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws,And make the earth devour her own sweet brood;Pluck the keen teeth from the fierce tiger's jaws,And burn the long-lived phoenix in her blood;Make glad and sorry seasons as thou fleets,And do whate'er thou wilt, swift-footed Time,To the wide world and all her fading sweets;But I forbid thee one most heinous c...
2022-03-2101 min
Dane's BrainSonnet 18 by William ShakespeareSonnet XVIIIby William ShakespeareShall 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 oft 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
2022-03-2001 min
Dane's BrainSonnet 17 by William Shakespearemuch more Literature Out Loud at daneallred.comSonnet XVIIby William ShakespeareWho will believe my verse in time to come,If it were fill'd with your most high deserts?Though yet, heaven knows, it is but as a tombWhich hides your life and shows not half your parts.If I could write the beauty of your eyesAnd in fresh numbers number all your graces,The age to come would say 'This poet lies:S...
2022-03-1902 min
Dane's BrainSonnet 16 by William Shakespearemuch more Literature Out Loud at daneallred.comSonnet XVIby William ShakespeareBut wherefore do not you a mightier wayMake war upon this bloody tyrant, Time?And fortify yourself in your decayWith means more blessed than my barren rhyme?Now stand you on the top of happy hours,And many maiden gardens yet unsetWith virtuous wish would bear your living flowers,Much liker than your painted counterfeit:So should the lines...
2022-03-1801 min
Dane's BrainSonnet 15 by William Shakespearemuch more Literature Out Loud at daneallred.comSonnet XVby William ShakespeareWhen I consider everything that growsHolds in perfection but a little moment,That this huge stage presenteth nought but showsWhereon the stars in secret influence comment;When I perceive that men as plants increase,Cheered and cheque'd even by the self-same sky,Vaunt in their youthful sap, at height decrease,And wear their brave state out of memory;Then the c...
2022-03-1701 min
Dane's BrainSonnet 14 by William Shakespearemuch more Literature Out Loud at daneallred.comSonnet XIVby William ShakespeareNot from the stars do I my judgment pluck;And yet methinks I have astronomy,But not to tell of good or evil luck,Of plagues, of dearths, or seasons' quality;Nor can I fortune to brief minutes tell,Pointing to each his thunder, rain and wind,Or say with princes if it shall go well,By oft predict that I in heaven find:B...
2022-03-1601 min
Dane's BrainSonnet 13 by William Shakespearemuch more Literature Out Loud at daneallred.comSonnet XIIIby William ShakespeareO, that you were yourself! But, love, you areNo longer yours than you yourself here live:Against this coming end you should prepare,And your sweet semblance to some other give.So should that beauty which you hold in leaseFind no determination: then you wereYourself again after yourself's decease,When your sweet issue your sweet form should bear.Who l...
2022-03-1501 min
Dane's BrainSonnet Elevenmuch more Literature Out Loud at daneallred.comSonnet XIby William ShakespeareAs fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou growestIn one of thine, from that which thou departest;And that fresh blood which youngly thou bestowestThou mayst call thine when thou from youth convertest.Herein lives wisdom, beauty and increase:Without this, folly, age and cold decay:If all were minded so, the times should ceaseAnd threescore year would make the...
2022-03-1301 min
Dane's BrainSonnet Ten by William Shakespearemuch more Literature Out Loud at daneallred.comSonnet Xby William ShakespeareFor shame! Deny that thou bear'st love to any,Who for thyself art so unprovident.Grant, if thou wilt, thou art beloved of many,But that thou none lovest is most evident;For thou art so possess'd with murderous hateThat 'gainst thyself thou stick'st not to conspire.Seeking that beauteous roof to ruinateWhich to repair should be thy chief desire.O, change...
2022-03-1201 min
Dane's BrainSonnet Nine by William Shakespearemuch more Literature Out Loud at daneallred.comSonnet IXby William ShakespeareIs it for fear to wet a widow's eyeThat thou consumest thyself in single life?Ah! If thou issueless shalt hap to die.The world will wail thee, like a makeless wife;The world will be thy widow and still weepThat thou no form of thee hast left behind,When every private widow well may keepBy children's eyes her husband's shape...
2022-03-0801 min
Dane's BrainSonnet Eight by William Shakespearemuch more Literature Out Loud at daneallred.comSonnet VIIIby William ShakespeareMusic to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy.Why lovest thou that which thou receivest not gladly,Or else receivest with pleasure thine annoy?If the true concord of well-tuned sounds,By unions married, do offend thine ear,They do but sweetly chide thee, who confoundsIn singleness the parts that thou shouldst bear.
2022-03-0701 min
Dane's BrainSonnet Seven by William Shakespearemuch more Literature Out Loud at daneallred.comSonnet VIIby William ShakespeareLo! In the orient when the gracious lightLifts up his burning head, each under eyeDoth homage to his new-appearing sight,Serving with looks his sacred majesty;And having climb'd the steep-up heavenly hill,Resembling strong youth in his middle age,Yet mortal looks adore his beauty still,Attending on his golden pilgrimage;But when from highmost pitch, with...
2022-03-0601 min
Dane's BrainSonnet Six by William Shakespearemuch more Literature Out Loud at daneallred.comSonnet VIby William ShakespeareThen let not winter's ragged hand defaceIn thee thy summer, ere thou be distill'd:Make sweet some vial; treasure thou some placeWith beauty's treasure, ere it be self-kill'd.That use is not forbidden usury,Which happies those that pay the willing loan;That's for thyself to breed another thee,Or ten times happier, be it ten for one;Ten times t...
2022-03-0501 min
Dane's BrainSonnet 5 by William Shakespearemuch more Literature Out Loud at daneallred.comSonnet Vby William ShakespeareThose hours, that with gentle work did frameThe lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell,Will play the tyrants to the very sameAnd that unfair which fairly doth excel:For never-resting time leads summer onTo hideous winter and confounds him there;Sap cheque'd with frost and lusty leaves quite gone,Beauty o'ersnow'd and bareness every where:Then, were not summer's distillation...
2022-03-0401 min
Dane's BrainSonnet Four by William ShakespeareMuch more Literature Out Loud at daneallred.comLiterature Out Loud indexSonnet IVby William ShakespeareUnthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spendUpon thyself thy beauty's legacy?Nature's bequest gives nothing but doth lend,And being frank she lends to those are free.Then, beauteous niggard, why dost thou abuseThe bounteous largess given thee to give?Profitless usurer, why dost thou useSo great a sum of sums, yet canst not live?For...
2022-03-0301 min
Dane's BrainSonnet Three by William ShakespeareSonnet IIIby William ShakespeareLook in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewestNow is the time that face should form another;Whose fresh repair if now thou not renewest,Thou dost beguile the world, unbless some mother.For where is she so fair whose unear'd wombDisdains the tillage of thy husbandry?Or who is he so fond will be the tombOf his self-love, to stop posterity?Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in...
2022-03-0101 min
Dane's BrainSonnet 2 by William ShakespeareSonnet 2Sonnet IIby William ShakespeareWhen forty winters shall besiege thy brow,And dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field,Thy youth's proud livery, so gazed on now,Will be a tatter'd weed, of small worth held:Then being ask'd where all thy beauty lies,Where all the treasure of thy lusty days,To say, within thine own deep-sunken eyes,Were an all-eating shame and thriftless praise.How much more praise deserved thy beauty's...
2022-02-2801 min
Dane's BrainThe Plodder's Mile by Dane AllredJohn Graham sat enjoying the stir-fry at his favorite Chinese buffet. The large grill was operated by a guy guiding two sticks back and forth across the shrimp, vegetables and garlic sauces selected by the patron, and then the food was deftly slid sideways into a bowl, steaming hot and succulent. It was great to have all you could eat with so many different choices; they rarely went home less than stuffed. The only regret John had was that there would be no leftovers for later tonight.Reba was looking at John with her head tilted sideways.
2021-08-2311 min
Dane's BrainThe Plodder's Mile by Dane Allredclick on CC on the video for Closed Captionsalso available here as an MP3CHAPTER SEVENTEENRay aimed the gun at Simon, who was laid out flat on the ground face down. “Sorry you won’t be able to spend any of my money, old man,” Ray said as his finger wrapped around the trigger. Then, Ray heard a familiar sound. Sirens were just over the hill.“Damn,” he muttered under his breath, and ran for the truck, keys jangling in his one hand, the rifle held in the other. Simon rais...
2021-06-2109 min
Dane's BrainThe Plodder's Mile by Dane Allred -- Chapter SixteenYouTube version with closed captionsChapter SixteenPaula was also having a difficult time talking. Her mouth was moving over Greg’s in a passionate kiss that kept his attention. He was hoping this was what she had meant when she sent Smitty away. He was tired of looking at John’s house anyway. But to make sure, he stopped her, and gently holding her shoulders, he asked her, “Are you sure you want to do this, Paula? I mean, last night you seemed like you wanted to wait.”Paula pulled him off...
2021-04-1011 min
Dane's BrainThe Plodder's Mile by Dane Allred -- Chapter FifteenClick on CC for closed captions or see complete text below.CHAPTER FIFTEENPaula joined the stakeout, over Smitty’s objections. She had offered to bring some food and cook, and Greg had been persuasive. He even reasoned having an imbedded reporter might make both of them look more efficient. They would have nothing to hide. Smitty was used to the two-man stake-out and didn’t want someone around “arranging doilies”. They were all watching the house across the street, waiting patiently for someone who might never come, but who at that moment was wond...
2021-03-2211 min
Dane's BrainThe Plodder's Mile by Dane Allred -- Chapter FourteenComplete text below or click on CC for closed captionsCHAPTER FOURTEENPaula was sitting in the corner of Greg’s front room crying. Greg had done his best to try to comfort her, but this time it wasn’t about him, and he wasn’t making much headway.“I’m hurting people, Greg”, she wept. “Just like when you got shot. Now people are watching over their shoulders for this Raymond Johnson guy, and who knows who he’ll shoot next. The last words out of their mouths will be ‘You’re that guy Paula Roger...
2021-03-2110 min
Dane's BrainThe Plodder's Mile by Dane Allred -- Chapter ThirteenComplete text below or click on CC on the video for closed captionsCHAPTER THIRTEENSmitty met Greg at the station. The plan had worked too well, and now the bad guy knew he had been conned, and probably wouldn’t be too happy about the fact. Instead of catching him in the act, now the best they could do was to get an all-points out on the still from the video camera in the station. Greg had enough sense to set the camera up right after the money had been locked away, bu...
2021-03-2109 min
Dane's BrainThe Plodder's Mile by Dane Allred -- Chapter TwelveClick on CC for closed captionsFull text below videoCHAPTER TWELVEAs the sun was coming up, Raymond Johnson was looking for a good place to hide the car, but all there was in this part of the state was farms. He began looking for a dirt road to go down, and maybe he would be able to find some thick growth to hide the car in. On the left of the road, Ray saw a gap in the trees, and just past the big red barn, he turned down...
2021-03-1609 min
Dane's BrainThe Plodder's Mile by Dane Allred -- Chapter ElevenCHAPTER ELEVENBy that time most of the neighbors had been alerted by the gunshot, and the police captain’s house is where most people decided to check first. Before long a crowd had gathered in the front room of Captain Jones. Widow McGregor had stopped the bleeding from the shoulder, and mopped up the blood on Jones’ face, but he was still out cold.Many of his neighbors milled about the room, wondered just what had happened, and after congratulating each other on their bravery, wondered if the person who had wounded thei...
2021-03-1507 min
Dane's BrainThe Plodder's Mile by Dane Allred -- Chapter TenComplete text belowCHAPTER TENDeputy Larry Skinner was across town having his last beer at the Hitbox. It was the only place in town that stayed open this late and served beer, so when closing time came, every drunk in town had to go home.Larry Skinner wasn’t an alcoholic, but he did like to drink. He liked the way it made him feel, and he wasn’t about to give that up, even though Captain Jones had warned him against coming to work hung-over.“Hell, Greg”, he had s...
2021-03-1410 min
Dane's BrainThe Plodder's Mile by Dane Allred -- Chapter NineComplete text belowClick CC for closed captions text on YouTube versionCHAPTER NINEIt wasn’t too difficult in such a small town to find out who the captain of police was, and where he lived. Since there was noise at his house when Ray went by, he decided to check out the deputy’s house instead. He knew that most police procedure made the officers deposit money in a safe in the police station that had a two-key system, so they wouldn’t be tempted to try to use the mo...
2021-03-1107 min
Dane's BrainThe Plodder's Mile by Dane AllredYouTube version with closed captions at bottomCHAPTER EIGHTWhen the news was broadcast later that night, John Graham was sitting in his comfortable living room with Reba, his wife. They were back on level ground again now that the first of the month money fights were over, and watching the local news was their way of winding down the day.John was not prepared for what Paula Rogers would be reporting that night. He had decided not to tell Reba anything about the money until is looked like he would be able...
2021-03-0813 min
Dane's BrainThe Plodder's Mile by Dane Allred -- Chapter SevenYouTube version below with closed captionsCHAPTER SEVEN“If I find out someone else has my money,” Ray said to himself, pacing the rut that was once the carpet, “I’m gonna massage him with the butt of my gun and then shoot him.”Ray had decided to stay in town and search the tracks for one more day. There really wasn’t a chance of finding the train now, and there was no practical way to search all those miles of tracks. He had also decided to go back to the town where Tommy w...
2021-03-0708 min
Dane's BrainThe Plodder's Mile by Dane Allred -- Chapter SixYouTube video with closed captions belowCHAPTER SIXRay paced a trail in the cheap motel carpet. He was turning over the details of the day in his head. He had returned to Ridgeway the very next day, less than 24 hours after the train had been here and he had thrown the parcel between the wheels.Could it have gotten caught in the undercarriage of the train? Did it get ground up into a bunch of zeros and ones? “Nah,” Ray thought to himself, since there would have been something left of the bill...
2021-03-0410 min
Dane's BrainThe Plodder's Mile by Dane Allred -- Chapter FiveYoutube version with closed captions belowCHAPTER FIVEOfficer Greg Jones had a few jobs to complete. But first he had to call his deputy, who was part-time, to come over and help him catalogue the evidence. Regulations said two people had to count money, and even if he wanted to flip through the pile and see if there were more bills inside, he would still have to wait for Larry to arrive.He worried as he waited that his good friend John may have tainted the evidence, but this still seemed to...
2021-03-0105 min
Dane's BrainThe Plodder's Mile by Dane Allred -- Chapter FourYouTube version below with closed captionsCHAPTER FOURAt the police station, Officer Jones looked at John with the RCA Victor dog head-tilt. “You found this out on the railroad tracks?”John nodded his head.“I was out jogging and saw the train,” said John. “I talked to the detective, who said cash had been stolen, and right after the train pulled out I saw this package.”“So, uh, how do you know there is money inside?” Greg Jones was serving in a small town, but he wasn’t slow. His good friend...
2021-03-0117 min
Dane's BrainThe Plodder's Mile by Dane Allred -- Chapter ThreeSubscribe today so you don’t miss anything FUN!The Plodder’s Mile by Dane Allred — Chapter Three YouTube video with closed captions belowCHAPTER THREECaptain Greg Jones sat fiddling with his holster as the phone rang. “There has got to be a way to fix this thing,” he muttered under his breath, wondering how long the latest bruise from his gun would take to disappear. “Captain Jones speaking.”“Hey, Greg, this is Harold from the big city! How’s the ‘burg?” Harold Smith never let a chance go by to harass his old...
2021-02-2608 min
Dane's BrainThe Plodder's Mile Chapter TwoCHAPTER TWOTommy sat in the railroad car turning the bundle over and over again in his hands. Smaller than a shoebox, it contained something very solid, and the brick seemed to weigh almost ten pounds. A strong and very tall man, Tommy had no problem hefting the weight in his hands, tossing it up and down, then from side to side, then rolling it over from top to bottom, then back again.Ray didn’t have the patience that seemed to come naturally with Tommy’s mental challenges. Although easily amused, it was also easy...
2021-02-2513 min
Dane's BrainBeginnings from Bright Space by Dane AllredBright Spaceby Dane AllredBeginningsYou were there.So was I.Everyone and everything that ever was, is, or will beWas there.There was nothing else, no other place, and no other time exceptThat bright space where we all were.All united in the peace of that bright spaceYet at once all individual.We were content.We were at rest in the never ending andNever beginning...
2021-02-2203 min
Dane's BrainGuy de Maupassant on Biography Out LoudBorn on August 5th, 1850, he once said, “I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.” One of many French people who despised the Eiffel Tower, he would often eat at the restaurant at its base to avoid having to see the structure. Who is this outspoken author who has been called one of the fathers of the modern short story? We’ll find out in a moment on Biography Out Loud.Biography Out LoudGuy de MaupassantGuy de Maupassant and forty-six other notable French authors and artist...
2021-02-2102 min
Dane's BrainThe Diamond Necklace by Guy de MaupassantThe Diamond Necklaceby Guy De MaupassantThe girl was one of those pretty and charming young creatures who sometimes are born, as if by a slip of fate, into a family of clerks. She had no dowry, no expectations, no way of being known, understood, loved, married by any rich and distinguished man; so she let herself be married to a little clerk of the Ministry of Public Instruction.She dressed plainly because she could not dress well, but she was unhappy as if she had really fallen from a higher station...
2021-02-2017 min
Dane's BrainAfter Apple Picking by Robert FrostAfter Apple Picking by Robert FrostMy long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a treeToward heaven still,And there's a barrel that I didn't fillBeside it, and there may be two or threeApples I didn't pick upon some bough.But I am done with apple-picking now.Essence of winter sleep is on the night,The scent of apples: I am drowsing off.I cannot rub the strangeness from my sightI got from...
2021-02-1802 min
Dane's BrainSonnet One by William ShakespeareSonnet Iby William ShakespeareFrom fairest creatures we desire increase,That thereby beauty's rose might never die,But as the riper should by time decease,His tender heir might bear his memory:But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes,Feed'st thy light'st flame with self-substantial fuel,Making a famine where abundance lies,Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel.Thou that art now the world's fresh ornamentAnd only herald to the gaudy...
2021-02-1801 min
Dane's BrainDents in the Van by Dane Allred Dents in the VanI used to deliver flowers. It was a great job for someone who needed some extra money but can’t work all day. After school I would run by the flower shop and pick up the deliveries, and after thinking about the best route, I’d be paid to drive around the city, listen to the radio and have happy people greet me when I showed up with flowers.It really is a cool thing to have people thank you for doing your job. It’s like I sent them the flower...
2021-02-1604 min
daneallredThe Plodder's Mile by Dane Allred -- Chapter Onehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZSrD3TZqRw
The Plodder’s Mile
by Dane Allred
CHAPTER ONE
Tommy loomed over the bank teller; a giant compared to any other customer Judy had helped that day.
He was taller than anyone she had seen in a month or two, yet the innocent eyes and gentle demeanor softened the effect. Tommy looked like a big teddy bear, waiting for a hug, but today he stood filling the teller’s window with his massive frame. He held a note in his hand, and though he handed it to Judy without hesitat...
2021-02-1610 min
Dane's BrainThe Plodder's Mile by Dane Allred -- Chapter OneThe Plodder’s Mileby Dane AllredCHAPTER ONE Tommy loomed over the bank teller; a giant compared to any other customer Judy had helped that day.He was taller than anyone she had seen in a month or two, yet the innocent eyes and gentle demeanor softened the effect. Tommy looked like a big teddy bear, waiting for a hug, but today he stood filling the teller’s window with his massive frame. He held a note in his hand, and though he handed it to Judy without hesitation, the writing belied the intent of the transaction.Judy...
2021-02-1610 mindaneallredTwo Wolves by Dane AllredThe Two Wolves
by Dane Allred
Grandfather told me, “There are two wolves living inside me.
One is good, and the other evil.
One is loving, friendly, even-tempered.
The other hateful, isolated, unstable.
The good wolf is happy, energetic, positive.
The evil wolf is sad, listless, negative.
Hopeful, forgiving, cheerful is the good wolf,
Hopeless, implacable, morose is the evil wolf.
One is calm, composed, serene.
The other worried, unbalanced, troubled.
They are so...
2020-01-0302 min
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Graduating from college is exciting, but the worst thing is now you have to find a job. You can’t sign up for another fencing class, because it’s time to get up and out in the real world. I’m a drama teacher, so that kind of specialization does limit your potential employers. Drama teachers tend to keep their jobs a long time, and when...
2014-08-0204 min