Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer’s Day?

A summer’s day

Shall I compare thee to?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate

The darling buds of May

Rough winds do shake

And summer’s lease hath all too short a date

All too short a date

Sometimes 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

A summer’s day

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

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

A summer’s day

A summer’s day

So long as men can breathe

Or eyes can see

So long lives this

And this gives life to thee