Tag Archives: Sonnet 18

Weather Report: Death’s Untimely Frost

By Robin Bates | Published: April 6, 2018

Having winter intrude upon our spring has me quoting Burns and Shakespeare.

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Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day

By Robin Bates | Published: July 30, 2014

Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18–Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day–can be read as a power move.

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Rough Winds Do Shake the Buds of March

By Robin Bates | Published: March 7, 2012

Crazy weather swings have been messing with our spring flowers, bringing to mind Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18.

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Thy Eternal Summer Shall Not Fade–True?

By Robin Bates | Published: October 18, 2010

Sunday evenings are for visiting our friends Alan and Jackie.  I feel blessed that Alan is sharing his dying with us and that I get to have with him the final conversations I did not have with Justin, my son who drowned. We don’t talk that much about death. Mostly we talk, as we always […]

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