Sonnet 18

With the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death coming round, my thoughts turned to trying a setting of the most famous of his sonnets. The opening two lines came to me one sunny morning on the way to work, and the remainder followed a few days later. I’ve noticed he wrote 154 of the things; I wonder whether I’ll be going to my copy of Shakespeare sonnets again any time soon.

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