Shakespeare

I read Shakespeare at Uni, and only some selected sonnets, I don't think number 2 was part of it. Sonnet 18 was one of the first, "shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" And then sonnet 130 "my mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun" . I just discovered this little tome of Sonnets in the bookshelf and will read through them all, some I know and others are new to me.
I had to laugh at the sonnet in the sonnet in the blip, having passed my forty winters last year, I don't think that the "trenches" are yet furrowed too deeply but then this is the 21st century and not the 16th. Amazing though how the feelings that inspired those sonnets are still very much the same and a lot of it rings true. Poetry really has a way to capture the essential.
I get very moved by music and can cry easily but I get especially moved when it's poetry set to music. Schubert's Erlkönig is a good example for that. It moves me to tears every time I listen to it.