{"id":26615,"date":"2014-08-19T06:30:55","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T18:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=26615"},"modified":"2014-08-18T16:25:15","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T04:25:15","slug":"the-tuesday-poem-sonnet-18-by-william-shakespeare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/08\/19\/the-tuesday-poem-sonnet-18-by-william-shakespeare\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tuesday Poem: Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
\nThou art more lovely and more temperate:
\nRough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
\nAnd summer’s lease hath all too short a date:
\nSometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
\nAnd often is his gold complexion dimm’d;
\nAnd every fair from fair sometime declines,
\nBy chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimm’d;
\nBut thy eternal summer shall not fade
\nNor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
\nNor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
\nWhen in eternal lines to time thou grow’st;
\nSo long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
\nSo long lives this, and this gives life to thee.<\/p>\n

William Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

I thought I’d continue my short break from the refeature series with a few of the classical poems—in this case Shakespeare’s famous Sonnet 18, arguably the most famous of his love poems. While that accolade remains a matter of opinion, Sonnet 18 certainly contains some famous lines, from the opening “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”<\/em> and the scarcely less famous “…darling buds of May”<\/em>, through to the concluding couplet:<\/p>\n

“So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,<\/em>
\nSo long lives this, and this gives life to thee. “<\/em><\/p>\n

How about you, do you have a favourite Shakespeare sonnet or a favourite love poem?<\/p>\n

You’re very welcome to leave a comment if you do. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Meanwhile…<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

\"TuesPoem\"<\/a>To check out the featured poem on the Tuesday Poem Hub<\/strong> and other great poems from fellow Tuesday poets from around the world, click here<\/strong><\/a> or on the Quill<\/strong> icon <\/strong>in the sidebar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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