Sonnet No. 18 - Shall I Compare Thee To a Summer's Day?-Edith Evans

[ti:Sonnet No. 18 - Shall I Compare Thee To a Summer's Day?] [ar:Edith Evans] [al:Edith Evans Reads Shakespeare's Greatest Sonnets] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Sonnet No. 18 - Shall I Compare Thee To a Summer's Day? - Edith Evans [00:00.57]Shall I compare thee to a summer's day [00:03.10] [00:03.80]Thou art more lovely and more temperate [00:06.12] [00:06.94]Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May [00:10.17] [00:10.93]And summer's lease hath all too short a date [00:13.81] [00:15.10]Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines [00:18.11] [00:18.99]And often is his gold complexion dimmed [00:21.90] [00:22.55]And every fair from fair sometime declines [00:25.90] [00:26.91]By chance or nature's changing course untrimmed [00:30.74] [00:31.66]But thy eternal summer shall not fade [00:34.71] [00:35.35]Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st [00:38.47] [00:39.23]Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade [00:42.82] [00:43.54]When in eternal lines to Time thou grow'st [00:47.34] [00:48.73]So long as men can breathe or eyes can see [00:53.07] [00:53.91]So long lives this and this gives life to thee