Shakespearean Sonnet Memorization

Sonnet 18

first line

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

second line

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

third line

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

fourth line

And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;

fifth line

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

sixth line

And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;

seventh line

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

eighth line

By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd;

ninth line

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,

tenth line

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;

eleventh line

Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,

twelfth line

When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:

thirteenth line

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

fourteenth line

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.