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Sonnet 18  Sonnet 18  William Shakespeare  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 sometimes 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 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.  thee
(pronoun): you (old English) thou (pronoun): you (old English)
art (verb): are (old English - verb 'to be') temperate
(adjective): mild; pleasant; warm do shake: note use of
auxiliary 'do' in present simple positi