Shall I Compare Thee William Shakespear   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 sometime declines. By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimmed. But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest: Nor shall Death brag thou wanderest 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.