04/23/2019
Poet and playwright William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England on this day in 1564. He also died on this day in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1616 (aged 52).
"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 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.
SHAKESPEARE: POEMS contains selections from Shakespeare’s work, including his sonnets, his narrative poems Venus and Adonis and The R**e of Lucrece, songs and speeches, and an index of first lines. READ more here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/164722/shakespeare-poems-by-william-shakespeare/
