Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare Beethoven - Piano Sonata No.8 First Movement (excerpt). - Joanna Lumley

[00:08.94]Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
[00:11.96]Thou art more lovely and more temperate;
[00:15.81]Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
[00:19.94]And summer's lease hath all too short a date;
[00:24.41]Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
[00:27.73]And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
[00:31.15]And every fair from fair sometime declines,
[00:34.10]By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
[00:38.44]But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
[00:44.41]Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
[00:47.83]Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
[00:51.50]When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st;
[00:56.98]So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
[01:01.09]So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.