Sonnets+18+and+55


 * AP English - Poetry**
 * Shakespeare’s Sonnets 18 & 55**


 * XVIII**


 * 1) Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
 * 2) Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
 * 3) Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
 * 4) And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
 * 5) Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
 * 6) And often is his gold complexion dimm'd,
 * 7) And every fair from fair sometime declines,
 * 8) By chance, or nature's changing course untrimm'd:
 * 9) But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
 * 10) Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
 * 11) Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
 * 12) When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,
 * 13) So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
 * 14) So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.


 * LV**


 * 1) Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
 * 2) Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme;
 * 3) But you shall shine more bright in these contents
 * 4) Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time.
 * 5) When wasteful war shall statues overturn,
 * 6) And broils root out the work of masonry,
 * 7) Nor Mars his sword, nor war's quick fire shall burn
 * 8) The living record of your memory.
 * 9) 'Gainst death, and all-oblivious enmity
 * 10) Shall you pace forth; your praise shall still find room
 * 11) Even in the eyes of all posterity
 * 12) That wear this world out to the ending doom.
 * So, till the judgment that yourself arise,
 * 1) You live in this, and dwell in lovers' eyes.

broil - a quarrel or commotion enmity - the state of being hostile or opposed to someone or something Mars - the Roman god of war