Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day by William Shakespeare
Shakespeare read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\nhttp://classicpoetryaloud.podomatic.com/\n\nGiving voice to classic poetry.\n\n---------------------------------------------------\n\nSonnet 18\nby William Shakespeare\n\nShall I compare thee to a summer's day? \nThou art more lovely and more temperate: \nRough winds do shake the darling buds of May, \nAnd summer's lease hath all too short a date: \nSometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, \nAnd often is his gold complexion dimm'd; \nAnd every fair from fair sometime declines, \nBy chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd; \nBut thy eternal summer shall not fade, \nNor lose possession of that fair thou owest; \nNor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, \nWhen in eternal lines to time thou growest; \nSo long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, \nSo long lives this, and this gives life to thee.