<P> Sonnet 18 , often alternatively titled Shall I compare thee to a summer 's day ? , is one of the best - known of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare . Part of the Fair Youth sequence ( which comprises sonnets 1 -- 126 in the accepted numbering stemming from the first edition in 1609 ) , it is the first of the cycle after the opening sequence now described as the procreation sonnets . </P>
<P> Sonnet 18 , often alternatively titled Shall I compare thee to a summer 's day ? , is one of the best - known of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare . Part of the Fair Youth sequence ( which comprises sonnets 1 -- 126 in the accepted numbering stemming from the first edition in 1609 ) , it is the first of the cycle after the opening sequence now described as the procreation sonnets . </P>
romeo and juliet sonnet shall i compare thee to a summer 's day
romeo and juliet sonnet shall i compare thee to a summer 's day
Sonnet 18
Sonnet 18