pied in bellumletale
TO: favoritethings@bellumletale.com
FROM: The Mask with No Mouth (yondershadow@bellumletale.com)
SUBJECT: (NO SUBJECT)
Thank you for the book, beautiful. Shakespeare was quite the romantic, wasn't he? There really is a sonnet for all - from the men who love women with eyes who are nothing like the sun, the dark-haired beauty... to the chaste, romantic sort of love portrayed in the line you recited for me that night.
Tell me, has anyone ever read a sonnet to you, as Shakespeare might have to the one he loved?
In praise of ladies dead, and lovely knights,
then in the blazon of sweet beauty's best,
of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow,
I see their antique pen would have expressed,
even such a beauty as you master now.