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The finest Urdu and English poetry from legendary and contemporary poets
5 poems available
Shakespeare
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.
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Meaning
The beloved outlasts even summer through the immortality of verse.
26.5K likes
Shakespeare
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
Meaning
Love as an eternal, unchanging force beyond time.
24.2K likes
Shakespeare
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.
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.
Meaning
Real love sees beauty beyond exaggerated comparisons.
18.9K likes
Shakespeare
When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes
I all alone beweep my outcast state
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries
And look upon myself and curse my fate,
Haply I think on thee, and then my state
Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate.
Meaning
Thinking of the beloved transforms despair into joy.
15.6K likes
Shakespeare
That time of year thou mayst in me behold
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,
Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.
This thou perceiv'st, which makes thy love more strong,
To love that well which thou must leave ere long.
Meaning
Aging and mortality deepening love's urgency.
14.1K likes