Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

[bye69]

Since it's still summer. I wanted to dedicate this to someone. Perhaps one of my favorite sonnets of 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 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 wand’rest 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.

[GianT PanDa]

@liliputian1 The author (Shakespeare) is asking how he can compare his beloved to a summer's day, and saying that she is more beautiful