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1. Sonnet 18 ----William Shakespeare Shall I compare thee to a summers day? (Could I compare you to the time of summer?) Thou art more lovely and more temperate: (You are more lovely and more gentle and mild than the days) (Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, (The wild winds shakes the favorite flowers of May. ) And summers lease hath all too short a date: (And the duration of summer has a limited period of time) Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, (Sometimes the sun shining is too hot. ) And often is his gold complexion dimmed; (Or often goes behind the clouds.) And every fair from fair sometime declines, (And everything beautiful will lose its beauty.) By chance or natures changing course untrimmed; (By misfortune or by nature’s planned out course) But thy eternal summer shall not fade , (But your youth shall not fade) Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st; (Nor will you lose the beauty that you possessed) Nor shall Death brag thou wanderrest in his shade, (Nor will death claim you for his own) When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st (Because in my eternal verse you will live forever) So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, (So long as the men can live in the world with sight and breath) So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. (This poem will exist and you will live in forever.) The author of the poem is William Shakespeare .It is a typical English sonnet, the rhyme scheme of the poem is “abab cdcd efef gg”. On the surface the poem is simply a statement to praise the beauty of the young man. But the more important is the poet wants to show the power of the poem which can defy time and last forever. The stability of love and its power to immortalize the subject of the poets verse is the theme. 2. On His Blindness ----John MiltonWhen I consider how my light is s