One of this poet's speakers defines "lust in action" as "the expense of spirit in a waste of shame."
One of this poet's speakers defines "lust in action" as "the expense of spirit in a waste of shame." A poem by this author insists that not even "war's quick fire shall burn the living record" of the addressee, whom the speaker immortalized in a "powerful rhyme" that will outlive "the gilded monuments of princes." This poet compared a lover's hair to "black wire" in an unflattering poem that opens: "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun." This poet answered the title question of one of his poems by quipping: "Thou art more lovely and more temperate." For 10 points, name this Elizabethan author, whose eighteenth sonnet opens: "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"
One of this poet's speakers defines "lust in action" as "the expense of spirit in a waste of shame."
William Shakespeare