Quote#Nature
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Quote byWilliam Shakespeare · 1564–1616
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Sonnets (1609), XVIII.
English (original)
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
— William Shakespeare
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