Shakespeare’s most famous sonnet, in which he tries, and fails, to find an apt comparison in nature, read by Bill Wallis.
A single poem, available also within the collection entitled "A Dozen Red Roses: 12 Valentines Poems"
Shall I compare thee to a Summers day?
Thou art more louely and more temperate:
Rough windes do shake the darling buds of Maie,
And Sommers lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heauen shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd,
And euery faire from faire some-time declines,
By chance, or natures changing course vntrim'd:
But thy eternall Sommer shall not fade,
Nor loose possession of that faire thou ow'st,
Nor shall death brag thou wandr'st in his shade,
When in eternall lines to time thou grow'st,
So long as men can breath or eyes can see,
So long liues this, and this giues life to thee.
Sonnet 18 - William Shakespeare
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