Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day (Sonnet 18) By William Shakespeare
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 dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimmed;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st,
Nor shall death brag thou wand’rest 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.
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References and Citations
Usf.edu. (2014). Sonnet 18 | The Sonnets | William Shakespeare | Lit2Go ETC. [online] Available at: https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/179/the-sonnets/3257/sonnet-18/ [Accessed 3 Oct. 2024].
Tufts.edu. (2024). William Shakespeare, Sonnets, XVIII. [online] Available at: https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.03.0064%3Asonnet%3DXVIII [Accessed 3 Oct. 2024].
Additional resources
SONNET 18 -WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. (n.d.). Available at: https://www.acda.vic.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/Sonnet-18-William-Shakespeare.pdf [Accessed 3 Oct. 2024].
Uni-leipzig.de. (2024). Sonnet 18 (Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?) – Lit4School. [online] Available at: https://home.uni-leipzig.de/lit4school/en/sonnet-18-shall-i-compare-thee-to-a-summers-day/ [Accessed 3 Oct. 2024].