Sonnet 18: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?
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 dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st 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.
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 dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st 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.
MLA Citation for video
William Shakespeare's Sonnet 18. Dir. Gillesrousel. Youtube: William Shakespeare's Sonnet 18. 29 Sept. 2010. 5 May 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYchG2rln-Y&feature=related.
MLA Citation for Poem
MLA Citation for Poem
Roberts, Edgar V., and Darlene Stock. Stotler. "Sonnet 18: Shall I compare Thee to a Summer's day?" Literature an Introduction to Reading and Writing. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson / Prentice Hall, 2008. 584-85. Print.
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