English Poetry: Sonnet 18 (Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day)

Listen to Sonnet 18 "Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?"
"Sonnet 18" is one of the best-known of the 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare.

POEM:
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 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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[mantashaseraj]

I love it !
Thanks for uploading this !
Upload more poems please...i love Shakespeare's plays/dramas ... And this is the first poem or rather a sonnet I'm hearing of him...( his normal writing is also like poetry ❤️so beautiful ! )

[MrRomeocxb]

Love from Bangladesh 🥰. Its beautiful really. I Learn.