A summer’s day
![Summer sunset at North Idaho’s Priest Lake. … Makes you want to jump right in, doesn’t it? (File)](https://thumb.spokesman.com/9GWTznZQ7wjH_wLxyIk_CsgFFp8=/810x0/media.spokesman.com/photos/2014/07/11/11_sev_p2_PRIEST_LAKE.jpg)
A friend hosted a wedding shower the other night. She asked guests to bring their favorite love poem. Do you have one? With all the twittering about, I wonder if lovers still share poetry or even poetic thoughts. Here is a classic:
Shall I Compare Thee, (Sonnet XVIII)
by William Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day?
Thou are 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 ow'st;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st 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.
(S-R photo: Summer sunset at North Idaho’s Priest Lake)