Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?Rhetorical Question
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Sonnets
In addition to the 154 sonnets Shakespeare wrote independent of his plays, he also wrote a number of sonnets within his plays. For example, four sonnets appear in Romeo and Juliet. In the list below, if a sonnet came from a play a link appears beneath the partial quote.
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Two loves I have, of comfort and despair
Two loves I have, of comfort and despair,
Which like two spirits do suggest me still.
The better angel is a man right fair,
When in disgrace with Fortune and men’s eyes
When in disgrace with Fortune and men’s eyes
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,
Now old desire doth in his deathbed lie
Now old desire doth in his deathbed lie,
And young affection gapes to be his heir;
That fair for which love groan’d for and would die,
If I profane with my unworthiest hand
Romeo
If I profane with my unworthiest hand
This holy shrineMetaphor,
A glooming peace this morning with it brings
A glooming peace this morning with it brings,Metaphor & Hyperbaton
The sun, for sorrow,
That time of year thou mayst in me behold
That time of year thou mayst in me behold
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,Alliteration
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
Two households, both alike in dignity
Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudgeParenthesis break to new mutiny,
To me fair friend you never can be old
To me fair friend you never can be old
For as you were when first your eye I eyed
Such is your beauty still.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines.
But flowers distill’d, though they with winter meet
But flowers distill’d, though they with winter meet,
Leese but their show, their substance still lives sweet.