Sonnet 18
Oleh: William Shakespeare
| Sumber: Sonnets
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?<br>
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:<br>
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,<br>
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;<br>
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,<br>
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;<br>
And every fair from fair sometime declines,<br>
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd;<br>
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,<br>
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;<br>
Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade,<br>
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:<br>
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,<br>
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Versi Asli
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.