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Does anyone know what that sonnet by Shakespeare is called?
It starts "shall I compare thee to a summer's day,thou art more lovely and more temperate..."

2007-05-30 11:55:08 · 2 answers · asked by Roselle 2 in Arts & Humanities Poetry

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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.

2007-05-30 11:57:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

It's Sonnet 18, perhaps his most famous. Many poems without titles are known by their first lines, so I would call it:
"Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day?"

2007-05-30 12:06:58 · answer #2 · answered by backwardsinheels 5 · 0 0

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