Shall I compare thee to a summer's day by William Shakespeare

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day by William Shakespeare

Sonnet 18, often alternately titled Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? It is written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. In the sonnet, the speaker compares his beloved to the summer season, and argues that his beloved is better. He also states that his beloved will live on forever through the words of the poem. 

     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 ow'st; 
　　Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st 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.