Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? by William Shakespeare

Sonnet 18 – William Shakespeare Original (Early Modern English) ↔ Modern English. Click any line to highlight its pair. Numbers stay matched for study. Use the Clear button to reset. Clear highlight Original Modern English 1 Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? 1 Should I compare you to a summer’s day? 2 Thou art more lovely and more temperate: 2 You are more lovely and more moderate: 3 Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, 3 Rough winds shake the precious buds of May, 4 And summer’s lease hath all too short a date; 4 And summer’s time is far too short; 5 Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, 5 Sometimes the sun shines too hot, 6 And often is his gold complexion dimm’d; 6 And often his golden face is dimmed; 7 And every fair from fair sometime declines, 7 And every beautiful thing eventually fades, 8 By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm’d; 8 By chance or by nature’s changing course; 9 But thy eternal summer shall not fade, 9 But your eternal summer will never fade, 10 Nor lose posse…