Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
 William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets (1609). copy citation

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Author William Shakespeare
Source Shakespeare's Sonnets
Topic summer
Date 1609
Language English
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“Be scorn'd, like old men of less truth than tongue, And your true rights be term'd a poet's rage And stretched metre of an antique song: But were some child of yours alive that time, You should live twice,—in it, and in my rhyme. XVIII 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 dimm'd,” source

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