From you have I been absent in the spring - Shakespeare, Sonnet 98 - Illuminated manuscript
by Alberto Sangorski
Title
From you have I been absent in the spring - Shakespeare, Sonnet 98 - Illuminated manuscript
Artist
Alberto Sangorski
Medium
Drawing - Illuminated Calligraphy
Description
From you have I been absent in the spring - Sonnet XCVIII (98) - illuminated manuscript pages with Shakespeare quotes, songs and sonnets by British calligrapher Alberto Sangorski (1983-1931), from a 1926 manuscript.
“From you have I been absent in the spring,
When proud-pied April, dressed in all his trim,
Hath put a spirit of youth in everything,
That heavy Saturn laughed and leaped with him.
Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smell
Of different flowers in odour and in hue,
Could make me any summer’s story tell,
Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew:
Nor did I wonder at the lily’s white,
Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose;
They were but sweet, but figures of delight
Drawn after you, – you pattern of all those.
Yet seem’d it winter still, and, you away,
As with your shadow I with these did play.”
― William Shakespeare, Sonnet XCVIII (98)
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