This is the first line of Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare.Shakespeare suggests that the memory of beauty will be immortalized in the sonnet.(see related question)
Sonnett No 18
It's wonderful - take a minute to read it:
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...
In this poem Shakespeare is comparing this woman's beauty to that of a summer's day. Shakespeare wrote over one hundred sonnets about her, each an attempt to summarize her beauty. This sonnet has...