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# Hot Summer's Day
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/hot-summers-day/
- Published: 2021-08-02T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-08-02T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: Shall I compare thee to a summer day? Though art more sweaty and intemperate. Rough winds that you so rarely hold at bay, My lease on life too short for such a date. Always too hot, too cold, in clothing that confines...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

Shall I compare thee to a summer day?  
Though art more sweaty and intemperate.  
Rough winds that you so rarely hold at bay,  
My lease on life too short for such a date.  
Always too hot, too cold, in clothing that confines,  
My hopes of happiness substantially dimmed;  
And watching as my sanity declines,  
And I feel day, by day, like I’ve been rimmed;  
But thy infernal summer shall not fade,  
Nor is there any hope things will improve,  
Nor shall death take you, drag you to his shade,  
As Time goes on, I find I have no move  
So long as I can breathe, my eyes can see,  
So long lives this, and this is forced on me.

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**Author notes:** https://allpoetry.com/contest/2785016-parody