~The Serenity of Pastels, Tres Chic~

Enjoy the merry month of May. For now, enjoy beauty in art and prose. The lovely painting in pastel is beautiful and tres chic! Dressing up makes one feel accomplished! A tribute to The Darling Buds of May, a sonnet by William Shakespeare.

SONNET 18

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee.