Category Archives: Drama

The Merry Widow

Posted on August 23, 2006 by divingforpearls

Women, women, women, Women, women, women, You may study their ways if you can, But a woman’s too much for a man, It is deeper than diving for pearls Courting girls, girls, girls, girls, girls! Franz Léhar, ‘Women’, from The … Continue reading →

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Richard III

Posted on August 10, 2006 by divingforpearls

Lord, Lord! methought, what pain it was to drown! What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears! What ugly sights of death within mine eyes! Methought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks, Ten thousand men that fishes gnawed upon, Wedges … Continue reading →

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Song from the Ship

Posted on August 8, 2006 by divingforpearls

To sea! To sea! the calm is o’er; The wanton water leaps in sport, And rattles down the pebbly shore; The dolphin wheels, the sea-cows snort, And unseen Mermaids’ pearly song Comes bubbling up the weeds among. Fling broad the … Continue reading →

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The Tempest

Posted on August 6, 2006 by divingforpearls

Full fathom five thy father lies, Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of his that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: … Continue reading →

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All for Love

Posted on August 6, 2006 by divingforpearls

Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls must dive below. John Dryden, All for Love (1678), prologue. All for Love; or, The World Well Lost, is a blank verse drama on the tragedy of … Continue reading →

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