often is his gold complexion dimmed
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 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.William Shakespeare, Sonnet XVIII: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?
The University of Michigan’s graduate library staff presents a Flickr collection of banned books pictures, including “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”, “The Call of the Wild”, “Slaughterhouse Five”, and “Leaves of Grass”.
