Sonnet XVIIIShall 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 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 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.
- William Shakespeare (1564- 1616)
3 comments:
I did this at school and it always hasstuck with me as did King Lear, hamlet and the TYempest. Richard II I left behind but should revisit it. It is interesting to think how as a teenager I did not really appreciate "Willie the Shake" (Obscure Joni Mitchell quote") but now and over the past few years I really have got into him again.
Some of Shakespeare's poems and The Tempest, Henry the IV, Hamlet and Macbeth have stuck with me.
have you ever seen the japanese medieval film version of lear or macbeth by Kurosawa?
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