Sonnet 18 - Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day?

William Shakespeare - Sonnet #18

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 oft' 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 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.

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[TheFrizzyfreak]

You should do a reading of The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, or A Dream Within A Dream by Edgar Allan Poe.

[Alexandermeister]

@TheFrizzyfreak Thanks for the suggestions!  I'll practise them and record them soon :)

[MHeleana]

What a lovely decor and awesome small poem... reincarnated Shakespeare!! :)

[Alexandermeister]

@MHeleana Thank you! It's still one of my favourite poems.

[MHeleana]

@Alexandermeister These days my favourite as well, it's freezing cold with a snow storm up here in Canada today, so seeing into your summer got me smiling! :)

[Alexandermeister]

@MHeleana It's always a pleasure to hear that people enjoy my readings. Feel free to message me any other poems you'd like to hear me read :)

[krob1712]

IT'S JESUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Alexandermeister]

@Hawkeyes907 Yes, you are right.

[Hawkeyes907]

sometime* declines

[xwiirastusx]

I would love to hear Sonnet 116 by you. In Yorkshire dialect, like it was meant to be read:)

All the best,

R