Beautiful Love Poetry - William Shakespeare

                Sonnet - 18

      Beautiful Love Poetry 

     - William Shakespeare 

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 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.

Nor shall death brag

thou wander'st in his shade.

When in eternal lines 

to time thou grow'st.

So long as man can 

breathe or eyes 👀 can see.

So long loves this, 

and this gives life to thee.

 Read by Shane Morris 

- Sonnet - 18

Sonnet 18 is one of the best known Sonnets written bij William Shakespeare .

In the Sonnet, the speaker asks whether he should compare the young man to a summer's day, but notes that the young man has qualities that surpass a summer's day. He also notes the qualities of a summer day are subject to change and will eventually diminish. The speaker then states that the young man will live forever in the lines of poem, as long as it can be read.

There is an irony being expressed in this Sonnet: it is not the actual young man who will be eternalized, but the description of him contained in the poem, and the poem contains scant or no description of the young man, but instead contain vivid and lasting description of a summer day, which the young man is supposed to outlive.