Sonnets | Exemplary Sonnets
Serving as the most-often cited example of the 154 verse poems that appear in Shakespeare's sonnets, Sonnet 18 is widely acknowledged as among the finest of the Bard's poems. Its fourteen lines read:
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...
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