Happy Deathday and Approximate Birthday, Shakespeare!

Today's poem shall be my favorite of the songs from the plays. I have a bit of a thing for carpe diem poetry, in case you couldn't tell from yesterday's selection.

( O Mistress Mine, by William Shakespeare )

You can see a clip from the fabulously awesome Trevor Nunn film version here. It's one of my favorite Shakespeare-on-film moments.

The Lamentable Comedy of Severus, Half-Blood Prince of Denmark: Epilogue

Whew. I can't believe I started this back before Christmas, but at least I finished it in time for it to count as Shakespeare's birthday fic.

Previous installments are here

( Epilogue: Out of Time )