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William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 - 23 April 1616 / Warwickshire)
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Poems by William Shakespeare : 21 / 410
Hark! Hark! The Lark
Hark! hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings,
And Phoebus 'gins arise,
His steeds to water at those springs
On chalic'd flowers that lies;
And winking Mary-buds begin
To ope their golden eyes;
With everything that pretty is,
My lady sweet, arise:
Arise, arise!
William Shakespeare
Submitted: Friday, January 03, 2003
Read poems about / on: water, heaven, spring, flower
Poems by William Shakespeare : 21 / 410
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A beautiful morning scene..it is going to be a great day definitely.. :)
Duke Ellington admired Shakespeare, saying about: he must've spent a lot of time on the street corner.
speachless......just speachless.....hats off to shakespeare
No words to say about Shakespeare.
genius tend to over analyzed things
but for a simple man with simple mind
this could be just early morning when
sun is barely rising; horses drinks on
spring; wake-up my lady-rise and shine.
This seems awkward for Shakespeare: 'His steeds to water at those springs/On chaliced flowers that lies...'
I google the following which sets the lyric in the play:
In Shakespeare's Cymbeline, Cloten uses lewd language to talk about Cymbeline. In an attempt to use musicians to court her, he calls on them to play 'a wonderful sweet air'. The hark, hark! ... line is chosen to represent sweetness and refinement, as a counterpoint to the previous crudities.
Seems like a flowery love poem of the era. BUT, he was the playwright and still is today. A psychoanalysis before the word was in vogue
An interesting analogy, Phoebus the god Apollo and a personification of the sun, arises and waters his spirited horses using chaliced flowers like a communion cup. With the light Phoebus bestows, beauty dawns anew in preparation for the harkened awakening of his love. A beautiful romantic theme.
I am not sure the phrase 'the king of romantic poetry' adequately fits or that this was Shakespeare's goal. Shakespeare in his plays and poetry has accurately depicted, every human emotional personality type, with unique insight. His intuitive observations and perceptive genius, invented forensic detail and analysis of character types, before the modern scientific era attained the process.
What a beautiful situation! The depiction of hilarious situation, the opening eye of flower bud, etc. for waking up to enjoy life the lover begins before his lady love wakes up! Shakespeare, the king of romantic poetry is forever a joy to read!
This is a thorough wonderment of the poet at sun rise in complete beautified words...