Sonnet no 18: By William Shakespeare ('Summer's day')

Sonnet no 18: By William Shakespeare ('Summer's day')

Read by: Bertram Selwyn (Bernard 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 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 wander'st 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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[rockclimber21]

I'd rather listen to this guy read Edgar Allen Poe. He almost sounds like Vincent Price

[bernardshakespeare]

@rockclimber21: Hello there - I really like Poe and do intend to upload more of his poems. - Check out my video 'A Dream Within a Dream'. Kind Regards.

[Obelisk2290]

A real man is able to expose his vulnerability to express himself to this degree

[CiaraWulf100]

@monicasm123 awwww :)

[CiaraWulf100]

@McLovin123ify yawn.

[CiaraWulf100]

@LionHeart67940 what the heck?

[CiaraWulf100]

epic and i have to memorize this for an assignment and a grade

[TraffordReds9]

@EXPLOSIVEXPLOSION Sacrilege. LOL. Especially when one can't match or do better. Poems don't have to rhyme but in this case the last few letters do provide the rhyme. It's all in how it is read.

[EXPLOSIVEXPLOSION]

@aram01201

No. Which is why sonnets are bullshit

[aram01201]

Does temerate ryme to date?

[CoolerKing37]

@abominative He's personifying summer as if the day belongs to it.

[abominative]

Why does Shakespears use the possesive form on the word Summer?

[mrfuz123]

Incredible