Monday, May 16, 2022

Sonnet XVIII


Shall I compare thee to a summer's day ?

Thou are 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 wanderest 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 give life to thee.




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