Question

what is the source of the poem, "shall i compare thee to a summer's day?

Answer 1

'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day', one of the most celebrated lines in all poetry, is from Shakespeare's Sonnet 18, 1609.

In the poem Shakespeare compared a lover to that welcome and lovely thing, a summer's day and, in each respect, found the lover to be more beautiful and everlasting


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