Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? -original music to a poem by William Shakespeare

Apologies for the humming at the beginning. I wrote this tune in 15 mins. and this a recording of the first time I played it through and decided it was done. Still humming to try to find the tune at the start. That was April 2021 and I obviously haven’t prioritized re-recording it. Still, I thought this was interesting enough to share.

Sonnet 18
By William Shakespeare

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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