You May Also Like / View all maxioms
 Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
 Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
  Rough winds read more 
 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.
    Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines,
     And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
      And every fair from fair sometime declines,
       By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed:
        But thy eternal summer shall not fade
         Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
          Nor shall Death brag thou wand'rest in his shade
           When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st.
            So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
             So ling lives this, and this gives life to thee. 
 But see, the shepherds shun the noonday heat,
 The lowing herds to murmuring brooks retreat,
  To closer read more 
 But see, the shepherds shun the noonday heat,
 The lowing herds to murmuring brooks retreat,
  To closer shades the panting flocks remove;
   Ye gods! and is there no relief for love? 
 Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade,
 Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade.
 read more 
 Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade,
 Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade.
  Where'er you tread the blushing flowers shall rise,
   And all things flourish where you turn your eyes. 
 All labours draw hame at even,
 And can to others say,
  "Thanks to the gracious God of read more 
 All labours draw hame at even,
 And can to others say,
  "Thanks to the gracious God of heaven,
   Whilk sent this summer day." 
 O for a lodge in a garden of cucumbers!
 O for an iceberg or two at control!
  read more 
 O for a lodge in a garden of cucumbers!
 O for an iceberg or two at control!
  O for a vale that at midday the dew cumbers!
   O for a pleasure trip up to the pole! 
 Here is the ghost
 Of a summer that lived for us,
  Here is a promise
  read more 
 Here is the ghost
 Of a summer that lived for us,
  Here is a promise
   Of summer to be. 
 The summer dawn's reflected hue
 To purple changed Lock Katrine blue,
  Mildly and soft the western breeze
read more 
 The summer dawn's reflected hue
 To purple changed Lock Katrine blue,
  Mildly and soft the western breeze
   Just kiss'd the lake, just stirr'd the trees,
    And the pleased lake, like maiden coy,
     Trembled but dimpled not for joy. 
 And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a 
lodge in a garden read more 
 And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a 
lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.