Actor Sheldon Donenberg performs sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare about the tumultuous swings between dejection and exultation that love produces. Want more poetry videos? Subscribe to our KZread channel! And for more information visit our website www.blankversefilms.com
Sonnet 29
by William Shakespeare
When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,
And look upon myself and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,
Desiring this man’s art and that man’s scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least;
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
(Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth) sings hymns at heaven’s gate;
For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
Performed by Sheldon Donenberg
Directed by Mike Gioia
Sound by Jordan Potter
Cinematography by Nate Brice
Produced by Blank Verse Films
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