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Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,Īnd every fair from fair sometime declines,īy chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,Īnd summer’s lease hath all too short a date Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? 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 Oh the "daling buds of May" I have arranged my takeaway thoughts into a haiku:
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"When eternal lines to time thou grow'st" has different connotations in light of the earlier seventeen sonnets, sadly. I have arranged my takeaway thoughts into a haiku: "Th This is a lovely poem, but I found that that it fell a bit in my esteem after reading through all of William Shakespeare's sonnets and seeing where it fits in the context of the narrator urging a young person who does not want kids to suck it up and have them for the sake of sharing his or her fine looks with all of humanity. This is a lovely poem, but I found that that it fell a bit in my esteem after reading through all of William Shakespeare's sonnets and seeing where it fits in the context of the narrator urging a young person who does not want kids to suck it up and have them for the sake of sharing his or her fine looks with all of humanity.