"Sonnet 18" by William Shakespeare

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This is it! This is it! This is the Big One! The one everybody knows! Or at least knows the first couple of verses, even if not the entirety of it. Well, now you *do* know the entirety of it.

And I dedicate this reading to my own dear sweet Helen, always and forever the most beautiful woman in the room.

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;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal 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.