"Parting is such sweet sorrow"
(William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet)
(William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet)
1597 was a big year for love and iconic culure, because it was when ROMEO AND JULIET was first printed in a pirated edition. Shakespeare's vivid tale of teenage love and murder ("a pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life") has resonated through the centuries (above, Leonardo Di Caprio and Claire Daines star in the 1996 film version) and his play – 90 per cent of which is in verse – has given the world some of the most beautiful poetry about love, including the lines:
"What's in a name?
That which we call a rose
By any other word would smell as sweet."
That which we call a rose
By any other word would smell as sweet."
“Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow,
That I shall say good night till it be morrow.”
That I shall say good night till it be morrow.”
“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.”
“You are a lover. Borrow Cupid's wings
and soar with them above a common bound.”
"O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?
"A plague o' both your houses!
They have made worms' meat of me!"
"But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun."
"Good night, good night. Parting is such sweet sorrow,
That I shall say good night till it be morrow."
“You are a lover. Borrow Cupid's wings
and soar with them above a common bound.”
"O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?
"A plague o' both your houses!
They have made worms' meat of me!"
"But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun."
"Good night, good night. Parting is such sweet sorrow,
That I shall say good night till it be morrow."
"See how she leans her cheek upon her hand!
O that I were a glove upon that hand,
That I might touch that cheek!"
O that I were a glove upon that hand,
That I might touch that cheek!"
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