Taken from Thy Sweet Love Remeber'd - Three Shakespeare Sonnets by Joseph Prestamo
Sonnet 97 - How Like a Winter

Queens College Choir, directed by Dr. James John
Soloists: Katrina Montagna and Robert Ariza

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William Shakespeare, Sonnet 97

How like a winter hath my absence been
From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!
What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen!
What old Decembers bareness every where!
And yet this time removed was summers time;
The teeming autumn, big with rich increase,
Bearing the wanton burthen of the prime,
Like widowd wombs after their lords decease:
Yet this abundant issue seemd to me
But hope of orphans and unfatherd fruit;
For summer and his pleasures wait on thee,
And, thou away, the very birds are mute;

Or, if they sing, tis with so dull a cheer
That leaves look pale, dreading the winters near

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