3 Dewdrops Dancing Down Daisies; 4 Shall I Compare Thee To A Summers' Day

Dewdrops Dancing Down Daisies

By Paul McCann

Don't delay dawns disarming display.

Dusk demands daylight.
Dewdrops dwell, delicately drawing dazzling delight.
Dewdrops dilute daisies domain.
Distinguished debutantes.
Diamonds defray delivered daylights distilled daisy dance.

Not much to comment on here in the way of differences. This poem is of interest because I know that Daniel did not like daisies. He was terribly allergic to them; they turned his eyes red and the whites of his eyes would swell as well as his face around his eyes. He would hack them down whenever he found a them growing near the house or yard.

Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer’s Day

Sonnet 18
William 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:

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;

But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

So long lives this and this gives life to thee.

Again, not much to note in the way of differences here. Again, it is interesting that he chose this one as I know he really wasn’t a summer person. He would much rather have snow days during the winter and have school extend into the summer than have a longer summer.