Sonnet XVIII

Shall I Compare Thee to A Summer's Day?
-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 dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometimes declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed.
But thy eternal Summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st
Nor shall death brag though 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.

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I was born in 1986 when the Asian Game was held in Seoul. Therefore I am 22 years old now. (However I'm freshman! kkk) Actually I attended Ewha Womans University two years ago. My major was Humanities. At that time I was falling in love with learning English Literature. Especially about short stories and poems. Of course this is one of my favorites. All the time I read this poem, I hope to be loved by someone. That much this poem is so lovely. Especially the last two sentences are fascinating. Someday, I would like to attempt to write this kind of lovely poem!