{"id":1,"date":"2019-06-13T01:36:02","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T01:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exit78.com\/poems\/?p=1"},"modified":"2019-06-16T07:42:38","modified_gmt":"2019-06-16T07:42:38","slug":"sonnet-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exit78.com\/poems\/sonnet-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonnet 18"},"content":{"rendered":"

William Shakespeare<\/strong><\/p>\n

S<\/span>Hall 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 owest;
\nNor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
\nWhen in eternal lines to time thou growest:
\n         So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
\n         So long lives this and this gives life to thee<\/p>\n

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Sonnet 18 in the 1609 Quarto of Shakespeare’s sonnets<\/p><\/div>\n

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