Sonnet 18

[Cain]

SONNET 18

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 owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st 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 gives life to thee.

William Shakespeare

I really like this sonnet. It is my one of favourites. I simply enjoy reading it to myself with a slow piano tune.

[Gabbyboy]

it is quite lovely..

[OrphanPip]

I prefer the Dark Lady sonnets, but this is one of the best of the early Fair Youth sonnets.