To His Love

To His Love

 

Shall I compare thee to a summer day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

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

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his cold complexion dimm’d;

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimm’d.

 

But thy eternal summer chall not fade,

Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;

Nor shall Death brag thou wanderest in his shade,

When in etera; lines to time thou growest:-

So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see

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

William Shakespeare

 

Shakespeare uses what type of poem to express his love “To His Love”?

a. ballad

b. lyric

c. sonnet

d. apostrophe

e. elegy