SHAKESPEARE 400

400 years
William Shakespeare

English poet, playwright, and actor
Born 1564 Stratford-upon-Avon
Baptised on 26 April 1564
Died on 23 april 1616

Sonnet XVIII
“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”

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.

William Shakespeare

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