Song: “Who is Silvia? what is she”
BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
(from Two Gentlemen of Verona)
BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
(from Two Gentlemen of Verona)
Who is Silvia? what is she, That all our swains commend her?
Holy, fair, and wise is she; The heaven such grace did lend her,
That she might admirèd be.
Is she kind as she is fair? For beauty lives with kindness.
Love doth to her eyes repair, To help him of his blindness;
And, being helped, inhabits there.
Then to Silvia let us sing, That Silvia is excelling;
She excels each mortal thing Upon the dull earth dwelling;
To her let us garlands bring
_____________________________
Holy, fair, and wise is she; The heaven such grace did lend her,
That she might admirèd be.
Is she kind as she is fair? For beauty lives with kindness.
Love doth to her eyes repair, To help him of his blindness;
And, being helped, inhabits there.
Then to Silvia let us sing, That Silvia is excelling;
She excels each mortal thing Upon the dull earth dwelling;
To her let us garlands bring
_____________________________
Sir William Shakespeare, I tip my hat to you! My heart is swayed with each passing line. Honey dripping in sweet ecstacy. Women are exquisite even as they are. Fill her with goodness and you give us a goddess.
#poetry #poems #williamshakespeare #sylvia #poemporn #poemgasm
credit: collectorprints.com
credit: collectorprints.com