Poetry: Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare ‖ Sir Patrick Stewart (2020.04.07)

[@purplepotato8669]

I feel like this time of isolation is allowing me to become more cultured as I listen to sonnets and classical literature each day. Thank you.

[@PoetryLovers-4u]

What a fantastic voice, and a wonderful reading of the sonnet, thank you

[@SuperKaBlooey]

Patrick Stewart, your honeyed voice renews Shakespeare's timeless sonnets with new life. Thank you, my favorite Star Trek captain, for bringing a little light into our lives during these uncertain times.

[@WhompingWalrus]

Wow, this guy's got talent! I hope he's recognized for it some day.

[@metroi7622]

This is inspiring. Hope I can read this at my mom's funeral, without breaking down. Rhx for posting.

[@Buc-eesGurl]

I'm so sorry for your loss. I do hope you realize that your mother lives on forever in your heart.

[@metroi7622]

@@Buc-eesGurl Thank you. Trying to feel grateful for all she gave me, and this poem helps. 💓

[@Dollyhaze1988]

i wonder why some people disliked this? this man has a great voice and reads perfectly

[@Dollyhaze1988]

@Desmond Martin thank you but please don't call me nigga, first of all I'm a girl, second of all I really don't like this word

[@Dollyhaze1988]

@Desmond Martin it's ok 🌸

[@beingsshepherd]

Imo Stewart enlivens the words with his characteristic charm but does not even try to understand and therefore can not imbue them with empathy. The entire recording above is casual and sloppily executed; showing a mutual contempt for the text and us.

[@eboogieellison6004]

Clearly they're working for Magneto😎🤓🧐

[@kimquinn7728]

@@Dollyhaze1988 A classy reply.

[@barbarabenvenuto7146]

He recites it with such emotion and feeling. And the couplet summarises the purpose and result of writing.👏💖

[@cafepoem189]

👍👍👍👍👍

[@greenmonsterswat4425]

You are an inspiration to everybody Sir Patrick!

[@juliejones4965]

I am using various readings of this sonnet to assist me with my own reciting of it . Sadly it’s for my darling mum’s interment and I think it’s so significant to my own circumstances 💕💕🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@p-isforpoetry]

Hi, @Julie Jones, I'm so sorry for your loss. Thank you for your comment.

[@juliejones4965]

Thank you - I am hoping to do justice to this beautiful poem . Take care xxx💕

[@metroi7622]

I'm doing the exact same thing. Don't think I'll get through without crying though, Julie Jones. Hope your reading went well.

[@BatmanWangChung]

I so dearly, miss and love these so much! 💗

[@BM-qn2tx]

Bless you for uploading. Hearing Patrick Stewart recite these so beautifully is lifting my soul. Blessings to one and all from Berlin.

[@thefreckledcormarant6431]

A poem about thinking about how you’re going to write a poem. About the writer’s consciousness before putting pen to paper. A meditation on the limitations of poetry that is, ironically, a great poem, and which ends up as an affirmation of the power of poetry to conquer even death. One that makes poetry itself a metaphor for the power of the human imagination. Extraordinary.

[@TechBrosGamingChannel]

I love it when Captain Picard reads Shakespeare.

[@coreolanus2.02]

Wow, die man is goedgoedgoed, buitenaards goed. Thank you Vladimir

[@ewatruszewska1572]

Thank you so much, finally I understand the beauty of the sonnets fully, after having tried for 20 years. :-)) And It is so wonderful when you start again. I wish I could teach my students to try again, and again...

[@rockingrockcat]

Bless you sir!

[@aristompulis1332]

BRAVO PATRICK YOUR AWSOME

[@teecee1567]

It's not often a poem causes me to shiver with delight... this does. Thank you, Sir Patrick. Oh, and Bill Shakespeare, of course!

[@tetch81]

Captain Picard quotes the last two lines in The Schizoid Man S2:E6 . I just watched it. Thank you for posting

[@brendafuller6186]

4.10.20. Thank you! I'd been wondering about the book you were reading from. I enjoy listening to you do much. So good to see you. And thank you to your wife too! God bless!💖

[@hermesnoelthefourthway]

"summer's lease hath all too short a date". Good job we're immortal, with our "eternal summer's" in our souls.

[@evilmindmula2373]

Even Sir Patrick Stewart messes up sometimes. I guess we really are all human

[@exollfe542]

Incredible

[@T.Riker_]

This video made my day 🥹

[@davidlucey1311]

Shakespeare blurs the line between speech and song, in the best possible way.

[@cafepoem189]

awesome🌹

[@revesai8555]

The last two lines definitely startled me. I felt like Shakespeare somehow tricked me into his scheme..

[@ThePersistentRumor]

Agreed. They pull everything into a new realm when you realize you're now part of the prediction. :-D

[@hermesnoelthefourthway]

Beam me up, Shakespeare

[@ilttpvvm]

During most of the time I was studying Shakespeare in school, I used the Folger Library's general readers' editions.

[@rmduetol]

A Romulan, Klingon, and Ferengi disliked this. It is only logical. 6o.o6

[@baddweather6362]

i always thought klingons had a soft spot for shakespeare

[@nomDePlume999]

Please do more!

[@cafepoem189]

👍👍👍👍👍

[@GoodOlKuro]

When I have plucked the rose

[@thatoneannoyingsoprano8066]

1:38

[@JohnChampagne]

IF Shakespeare was actually Edward de Vere, IF the Sonnets were a love-letter to his estranged son, and IF he had written 100 years later, when he did not need to keep his affair with the Queen secret... My Son, Once, in coded words, I pondered if to liken you to fleeting summer days. But now, free from mortal restraints, unshackled from society's gaze, I see clearly: You're the sun, brightening the realms of our lineage, even if history looks away. In life, I hid my love; today, in this eternal realm, it's plain to see. You were born of royal love and secret joy, Yet I was forced to cloak my love, my pride, my noble boy. The earthly summer fades; the sun may dip and roses wither, die, But here, in death, our souls remain, no longer bound to silence, nor forced to lie. Our lineage may never be written, our tale might never grace history's page, Yet, love transcends ink and paper; it is the silent script upon life's stage. So let us now, my son, embrace the light that could not shine in earthly dim, Bound not by flesh or blood, but by eternal love, a force undimmed.

[@michaelholmes2101]

went on holliday with about 20 years ago when I had a girlfriend - in Ireland and there was ; and we were sitting outside a pub in the sunshine, and there was a drunken man of about 40 with his bicycle and some posessions on it : singing Pishhed again, like I was last Summer, (loudly) , like I was last day. Maybe he was trying to keep up with me

[@Darkeypoo]

6.2.20, This Is The End, Didn't Think We'd Ever Make It This Far To Die To a World of Unknown Secrets and Discoveries Hidden Under Our Noses

[@michaelholmes2101]

In Singing I am a good singer Used to sing myself to sleep when a boy . bla bla and God bless you please

[@daryaleonova5932]

Please, Can somebody say name of the book Sir Patrick reads ??🙏

[@p-isforpoetry]

Hi, it is from the Folger Shakespeare Library: www.folger.edu/blogs/shakespeare-and-beyond/shakespeare-sonnets-patrick-stewart/

[@reginetheodoresco7791]

Does somebody know what Book IS hé Reading? Thanks

[@p-isforpoetry]

Hi, he is reading from the Folger Shakespeare Library edition: www.folger.edu/blogs/shakespeare-and-beyond/shakespeare-sonnets-patrick-stewart/

[@minecraft_creator339]

GO CAPTAIN PICARD

[@martinruf8784]

Set course to Betazed. Warp 9.

[@eujunelee1792]

you remember ;)

[@DarkForcesStudio]

"Temperant"???? Pull yourself together man!! 🤣🤣🤣

[@user-tb4el1sr1q]

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