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Ah, now this was easier to find because this sonnet & Sonnet 130 are probably the most popular Shakespearean sonnets. This is just the actual sonnet, though. I'll have to look for an analysis of this sonnet somewhere else. 😕 Still, this is a good resource that you can refer to if you don't have a physical copy readily available.

Sonnet XVIII

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 dimmed ;

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimmed ;

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st,

Nor shall death brag thou wand’rest in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st.

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

The text of Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare. Tbh, these two sonnets are actually very easy to study. If you can write a decent answer, you'll score well. I just hope I'll get a question about either of these two Shakespearean sonnets I just posted. 🤞🤞

Sonnet CXXX

My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun ;

Coral is far more red than her lips’ red ;

If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun ;

If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.

I have seen roses damasked, red and white,

But no such roses see I in her cheeks,

And in some perfumes is there more delight

Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.

I love to hear her speak, yet well I know

That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

I grant I never saw a goddess go ;

My mistress when she walks treads on the ground.

And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare

As any she belied with false compare.

The Corrupt Eagle

The question surfaced when the first tank rolled in,

To fight back or let the Third Reich reign supreme?

To fight back would bring more force from Berlin,

But to submit would ruin the next generation’s dream.

The crooked cross loomed over my city, oppression

Weighed down on my shoulders, they were so strong.

How was one person going to break the suppression?

Maybe I should accept the new rule, just play along.

Blend in, stay out of sight, and don’t cause trouble.

The piercing gaze of the eagle made my heart

Fill with fear. They were turning my city to rubble,

And I just had my will that was crumbling apart. 

But news of giants awakening to devour

the eagle, I realized I didn't need to cower. 

I find myself in its painful clutches .

I can still feel its cold needle fingers.

my hand can't feel anything it touches.   

try to keep moving yet the cold lingers.

my arms feel numb and the mussels feel stiff.

each snowflake feels like bullets on my skin.

I pause and sit at the edge of a cliff.

I don't think I can get back up again.

like I'm the only thing in existence.

the cold air hurting my lungs with each breath.

I feel myself  losing all my scenes.

off in the distance I see lady death.

deaths loving eyes contrast her lifeless face. 

I can finally feel her warm embrace...