SONNET 18 'Shall I Compare Thee To a Summers Day'

Sonnet XVIII

'Shall I Compare Thee To a Summers Day'
by William Shakespeare

studio production Robert Nichol

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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[Nanaman12345]

Any tips on how to memorize this?

[JustAudio2008]

put it on your mobile -or ipod -or mp3 player if you have one.-

I can cend you an mp3 if you mail me

[ragnarkisten]

This guy says "leafs" instead of "lease"

[JustAudio2008]

no - it just sounds like it - but I agree it could sound like it

[luisbogota1]

It is wonderful, would it be possible to find the caption ,or the written texts of poems,,that would be great for foreigng speakers of english

[JustAudio2008]

I have put the text to the poem in the information box.

hope this helps

thanks for your kind words

[minhtung91]

This is the one of my favorite Sonnets!

[efremme]

I love the kindness of this sonnet, I memorized this lyric a few years ago and I yet remember, it's too comely to forget.

[skullgurl18]

I'm doing this one for the Shakespeare competition in February. I have only half of it memorized though.

[teamcrumb]

why make it sound so ludicrously pretty. a sonnet is merely a form of speech. it is not the ascension of speech. in life he was not an eloquent ghost. he didn't mean to be a an eloquent ghost while he was living. we destroy these poems when we try to make them more resounding than the daily epiphanies to be found in conversation. these moments are not effecting us, they come to life as we notice the unity and lessons found within them. stop the reverb and the sound effects.

[Falonion]

denga mparà a memoria sta roba x domani, che cazzo di palle! >.<

[willy012096]

nice

[SUPERREVIEW1234]

thank you so mutch for up loading this

i have to do this for school .....

made it so mutch easier hearing it then reading it

[emosikoloto]

I urge everyone to listen to David Gilmour's amazing version of these lyrics.

[thoomoo]

Beautiful words

[ourDC888]

Wonderful, thank you!

[chocisgood]

Why is this considered as one of Shakespeares most harmounious and beautiful works of 'art' to represent a woman?