Sonnet 18
William Shakespeare
1564 to 1616
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Reconstruct the poem by dragging each line into its correct position. Your goal is to reassemble the original poem as accurately as possible. As you move the lines, you'll see whether your arrangement is correct, helping you explore the poem's flow and meaning. You can also print out the jumbled poem to cut up and reassemble in the classroom. Either way, take your time, enjoy the process, and discover how the poet's words come together to create something truly beautiful.
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Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest;
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd;
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.