Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare

English rose

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. 

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David Gilmour sings Shakespeare's Sonnet 18
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8Osse7w9fs 

Rufus Wainwright sings Shakespeare's Sonnet 29
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYd2KlRX4Vs&feature=related
Images from Pride and Prejudice (based on Jane Austin's novel)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6FFtq5CEoM