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Sonnet 18 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 dimm’d; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm’d; But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest:    So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,    So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.  This sonnet is considered to be the most famous of all the sonnets written by William Shakespeare. The poet appreciates someone, who is not clearly mentioned in the poem. Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate:  The sonnet opens abr...

An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray About the Poet Thomas Gray was born in 1716 and died in 1771. He was an English poet, who dominated the mid eighteenth century. He is also considered to be the precursor of the Romantic Movement in English poetry that began with the arrival of William Wordsworth and S.T. Coleridge. थॉमस ग्रे का जनम 1716 ( १७१६) में और उनका देहांत सं   1771 ( १७७१) में हुआ थाl   वे एक महान कवी थे अठारहवीं शताब्दी के मध्य काल तक छाये रहे l उन्हें रोमांटिक मूवमेंट का precursor   माना जाता था और उनके पीछे पीछे ही विलियम वर्ड्सवर्थ तथा स टी कॉलरिज जैसे   के महान कवी अंग्रेजी साहित्य पटल पर आ रहे थेl   He was a classical scholar and a professor at Cambridge University. Some of his important works are: ‘Ode on the Spring’, ‘Sonnet on the Death of Mr. Richard West’, ‘Hymn to Adversity’ and ‘Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College’. वे एक क्लासिकल विद्वान और ...