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...LYDIA (1) by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE WASHINGTON MONUMENT BY NIGHT by CARL SANDBURG THE AIRS OF SPRING by THOMAS CAREW UPON SOME ALTERATION IN MY MISTRESS, AFTER MY DEPARTURE INTO FRANCE by THOMAS CAREW TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. OUT OF THE HOUSE OF CHILDHOOD by EDWARD CARPENTER TO A DECEMBER GROUSE (HEARD FROM THE SMOKING ROOM) by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS |