Posted by Kimberlieo at 209.50.129.181 on January 14, 2003 at 10:21:33:
In Reply to: Kimberlieo: Shakespeare.18th Sonnet is my favorite posted by BChrist on January 13, 2003 at 18:22:41:
I think out of them all I am most familiar with this one. I am always moved by how these sentiments have endured, through the sonnet. She is gone, he is gone, Shakespeare is gone, but we can open up a little portal and have a peek at past love. She will never age because of this poem.
: 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 men can breathe, or eyes can see,
: So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.