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Sonnet 18 (also known as "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day") is one of the best-known of the 154 sonnets written by English poet and playwright William Shakespeare.. In the sonnet, the speaker asks whether he should compare the Fair Youth to a summer's day, but notes that he has qualities that surpass a summer's day, which is one of the themes 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 dimmed; And every fair from fair sometimes declines, By chance or nature's changing course untrimmed;
The nature of that love has often been debated, namely whether it was romantic or platonic in nature, The consensus is generally that they are more romantic in nature, judging by the classic romantic language used in Sonnets like the famous 18th ("shall I compare thee to a Summer's day"), and the poet's lamentation that the youth was not born a ...
"The Willow Song" performed by Barbara Bonney (Othello, Act IV, scene 3) "Music to hear, why hearst thou music sadly" performed by Ladysmith Black Mambazo "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day" performed by Bryan Ferry ; Two pieces of Shakespeare's plays were set to music by Loreena McKennitt:
"Come Follow Me (To the Redwood Tree)" is an English language nursery rhyme and a popular children's song. It can be an "ask a question" nursery song. It can be an "ask a question" nursery song. Asking where shall thee follow.
Sonnet 122 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare, and first published in 1609.It is a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man.
"When forty winters shall besiege thy brow" ("Sonnet 2"), performed by Caroline Blakiston "No longer mourn for me when I am dead" ("Sonnet 71"), performed by Peter Bowles "In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes" ("Sonnet 141"), performed by Sylvia Syms "Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day" ("Sonnet 34"), performed by Robert Lindsay
Shakespeare Sonnet CXXVIII (How oft, when thou my music) for baritone and piano 4 min 1980 Shakespeare Sonnet XVIII (Shall I compare thee) for soprano and piano 3 min 1958 Shakespeare Sonnets XXXIII (Full many a morning) & XL (Take all my loves) baritone, 7 min 1979