In the canon
The Sonnets
- Form
- Form Poetry Collection
- Year
- Year 1609
- Pages
- Pages 180
A sequence of poems moves from a poet begging a beautiful young man to have children before time ruins his beauty, into jealous devotion, and finally into a tangled, self-loathing affair with a dark mistress the young man wants too.
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate
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