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 sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
~ William Shakespeare
Great choice! How fast do you think you can memorize it?
ReplyDeleteBTW, I love the layout and music on your blog; makes me wish I had more time to hang out here.
Hm, I think seeing as it caught my eye very quick I could memorize it in about an hour but take a day and a half to really study the sonnet itself. The reason is because I would actually make sure to memorize it to perfection. It's a great sonnet in my opinion and I would want to make its perfect if I recited it.
ReplyDeleteThank you very much! I keep changing it but I really like this layout and music. Seems right! (: