pastiche

(1) Shall I compare [her] to a summer's day?
Or claim (2) she walks in beauty like the night?
The (3) beautiful dreamer [wakes] unto me
(4) Because the sun's and her power is the same
(5) Where, whenas death shall all the world subdue,
Our love shall live, and later life renew.

©2005 b.cisek

credits:

(1) William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18; (2) Lord Byron, "She Walks in Beauty"; (3) Stephen Foster, "Beautiful Dreamer"; (4) Henry Constable, "My lady's presence makes the roses red"; (5) Edmund Spenser, "One day I wrote her name upon the strand"

(pastiche • \pass-TEESH\ • noun *1 : a literary, artistic, musical, or architectural work that imitates the style of previous work; also : such stylistic imitation 2 a : a musical, literary, or artistic composition made up of selections from different works : potpourri b : hodgepodge) ~ definition courtesy of merriam-webster online