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 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 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 gives life to thee. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DEAD LEAVES by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON IN THIS DARK HOUSE by EDWARD DAVISON A.G.A.V. by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN NATALIA'S RESURRECTION: 1 by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT PILATE'S WIFE'S DREAM by CHARLOTTE BRONTE CEDARS by GRACE HAZARD CONKLING PROLOGUE TO 'ESSAYS IN OLD FRENCH FORMS' by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON |