Sonnets Xviii: Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day? Poem by William Shakespeare

Sonnets Xviii: Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day?

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Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art 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 ow'st;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Egal Bohen 09 February 2006

To William Shakespeare, in your own words: 'So long as men can breath or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee' - absolute genius

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Shaun Cronick 28 March 2020

Shakespeare's sonnets arguably don't come any better than this.

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Fabrizio Frosini 05 January 2016

this Sonnet has been posted 3 times (at least)

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Zell.NZ 22 March 2019

Because its worth reading

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Brian Jani 26 April 2014

Awesome I like this poem, check mine out 

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Ted Smith 21 October 2013

A wonderful and very moving sonnet.

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Vipin Trisal 15 October 2008

Poet's Eye Every living beauty has to die if not seen by a poet's eye.....my poem for Shakespeare

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