POEM OF THE DAY : SEVEN AGES OF MAN - SHAKESPEARE

SEVEN AGES OF MAN - SHAKESPEARE

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In this drama of life, each one of us plays seven distinct roles. This, Shakespeare says, is the Seven Ages of Man. Music by CHRIS COLEMAN

 

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SEVEN AGES OF MAN - SHAKESPEARE

SEVEN AGES OF MAN - SHAKESPEARE

(POWERFUL LIFE POETRY)

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In this drama of life, each one of us plays seven distinct roles. This, Shakespeare says, is the Seven Ages of Man.

 

MUSIC BY CHRIS COLEMAN

 

Grateful thanks to RedFrost Motivation, CHRIS COLEMAN and YouTube and all the others who made this video possible 

POEM OF THE DAY : MERCY by William Shakespeare

MERCY 

by William Shakespeare

The quality of mercy is not strained;
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest,—
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:
‘Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes
The thronèd monarch better than his crown:
His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe and majesty,
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;
But mercy is above this sceptred sway,—
It is enthronèd in the hearts of kings,
It is an attribute to God himself;
And earthly power doth then show likest God’s,
When mercy seasons justice

Poem of the day-73: "A Father's Advice" by Shakespeare

And these few precepts in thy memory
See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,
Nor any unproportioned thought his act.
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatched, unfledged comrade. Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel; but, being in,
Bear 't that the opposed may beware of thee.
Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice:
Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But no expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy;
For the apparel oft proclaims the man.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: - to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.

(Advice of Polonius to his son Laertes, Hamlet)

Poem of the day-44: "Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind"

Blow, blow, thou winter wind,
Thou are not so unkind
As man's ingratitude;
Thy tooth is not so keen,
Because thou art not seen,
Although thy breath be rude.
Heigh-ho! sing heigh-ho! unto the green holly;
Most friendship is feighning, most loving mere folly:
Then heigh-ho, the holly!
This life is most jolly,
Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky,
Thou dost not bite so nigh
As benefits forgot:
Though thou the waters warp,
Thy Sting is not so sharp
As friend remember'd not.
Heigh-ho! sing heigh-ho! unto the green holly:
Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly:
Then heigh-ho! the holly!
This life is most jolly.

From William Shakespeare's 'AS YOU LIKE IT"