Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

Good Morning Readers:

What better way to start the New Year, than with a Shakespearean sonnet. I’m sure many of you know or are familiar with this sonnet.

William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 is justifiably considered one of the most beautiful verses in the English language. The sonnet’s  enduring power comes from Shakespeare’s ability to capture the  essence of love so clearly and succinctly.

Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets published in his ‘quarto’ in 1609, covering themes such as the passage of time, mortality, love, beauty, infidelity, and jealousy.

A Sonnet is a 14-line poem with a variable rhyme scheme originating in Italy and brought to England by Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, earl of Surrey in the 16th century. Literally a “little song,” the sonnet traditionally reflects upon a single sentiment, with a clarification or “turn” of thought in its concluding lines. There are many different types of sonnets.

Shakespearean sonnet, number 18.  

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.

My poetry books, ‘The Mists of Time’, and ‘Waking Up To Beauty’, were published by Austin Macauley Publishers, April 30, 2021, and April 29, 2022, respectively.

Perhaps you may like to give my poetry books to loved ones, a great Valentine’s Day gift.

Below are some quick ways you can find out all about my books.

https://www.austinmacauley.com

Open this website and look under ‘Author’.  Then search under ‘H’, and find my name and picture.    You will notice both my books are included here.

The books are available online at many bookstores around the world, so what are you waiting for?  You can also buy the ePub version which can be uploaded to your device when you buy it. I think you will find my poetry relaxing and thought-provoking.

I really appreciate your visits to my website and hope you enjoy the contents.

Wishing you all a safe and happy New Year.   Let us hope that this year could bring PEACE to Ukraine. 

Best Wishes,

Anne

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