Can you help me plizz?

[gracie]

Could you please tell me who wrote this? Thanks. :)

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 sometimes declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd
But thy enternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall Death brag thou wand'rest 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 gives life to thee.

Also, this poem.

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.
I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,
But on such roses see I her in her cheeks,
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that form my mistress reeks,
I love to hear her speak, yey well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go,
My mistress when she walks treads on the ground.
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.

[B-Mental]

The first is Shakespeare's Sonnet xviii (not sure, but you can find it in the forum under Will's bio and complete works). I'd look at his others to be sure that the other isn't also by same. Use the search once you find him, type a phrase in and see if you get a match.

good luck

[Scheherazade]

Both of them are by Shakespeare. The first one, like B-Mental said, is Sonnet 18 and the second one is Sonnet 130.

Did you know that the singer Sting (who used to a teacher before finding fame as a singer) got the title of his album 'Nothing Like the Sun' from the Sonnet 130 'My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun'?

[chmpman]

Interesting, although I don't like Sting.