O Happy Dagger! (Sonnet II)

by debbylyn   Nov 1, 2007


Within mine trembling hand thy blade doth rest
Salvation honed on days of blood and tears
Thy journey's end completes the final test
Life anchored not in futile fatal fears

Thy gilded scabbard's double edged delight
Duality of spirit bends and sways
In balancing on brink of blackest night
Whispers taunting- dawn to dusk, dusk to days

O happy dagger! Greet me as I rise
Thy liar's bite a welcome warm embrace
Drop by glorious drop contentment sighs
As peace and beauty mask a weary face

From tortured heart a lover's last refrain
Thy piercing wound ignites a soul again

* for a Shakespeare contest

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  • 16 years ago

    by Pete

    I think I may well have entered the very same contest, you shone above the rest with this piece. Truly grasped the Elizabethan tongue as though it were second nature. One thing I noticed while writing mine was just how difficult it is to portray todays speech into Elizabethan, you do this so effortlessly in this piece.

    I have been trying my damnest to find a flaw .. just so that I have something to critique and I simply cannot find one.

    Any writer would be glad to have this masterpiece in their back catalogue.

    ~Pete.

  • 17 years ago

    by Daisy if you do

    Oh man Debbie, this has got to be one of the most amazing poems I have read. Such wonderful work here. Very Shakespearanish. You have done an amazing job. Very beautiful.

  • 17 years ago

    by Robert Gardiner

    Wonderfully Penned, Bravo!!!

  • 17 years ago

    by Barry

    Oh so wonderful.......awesome and beautiful
    like a dream come true

    10/5....the poems alright too...

  • 17 years ago

    by Cindy

    Debbie
    What a wonderful Sonnet. Everything you write is so beautiful.

    O happy dagger! Greet me as I rise
    Thy liar's bite a welcome warm embrace
    Drop by glorious drop contentment sighs
    As peace and beauty mask a weary face

    The emotions that come from this piece are over whelming, Loved this stanza.
    Excellent Job! ~Bravo~
    Love Cindy

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