Sonnet 18
William Shakespeare
1564 to 1616
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Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's course, untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal to time thou growest;
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and gives life to thee.