This is one of William Shakespeare's more well known sonnets and I thought it would be nice to share it with you guys (even though a lot of you will have already seen this exact sonnet somewhere before).
Read each line and think about it for a few seconds before reading the next.
Poetry can be admired more when it is read slowly and lasts longer in the reader's mind if done so.
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.
It's quite a neat little sonnet and if you read the poem as if you are declaring your love to someone (as cheesy as that may sound), you feel different emotions to those you would feel if you just read it from an objective point of view.
Go ahead and read this to someone you love a lot.
Actually, maybe don't do that and just give them compliments instead.
However, if they are a Shakespeare nut then remembering this sonnet may prove useful.
Don't blame me if it doesn't work though.
I honestly have no idea why you clicked on this link but if you did, I hope you found the sonnet at least slightly uplifting and have a newfound appreciation for literary works.
If not, I'm sorry that you clicked this link in the first place.
Have a good day all of you :D
I may think about posting a bunch of poems for all of you to read, but maybe I won't.
We still have books and the internet for a reason.
But then again, some of you can't be bothered going to those websites...
We'll see though.
If I get bored enough I might.
