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.

The Sonnet explained:

This sonnet, written by William Shakespeare, reflects on the timeless beauty of a beloved person. The poet compares the person to a summer’s day, acknowledging that while summer days are fleeting and imperfect, the beauty of the beloved will not fade with time. The poet beautifully conveys the idea that as long as there are people to read these lines, the beauty and memory of the beloved shall live on. This sonnet encapsulates the enduring power of love and the immortality of art in preserving that love.