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 dimmed;
And
every fair from fair sometime declines,
by
chance or nature’s changing course untrimmed:
But
thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor
lose possession of that fair thou own’st;
Nor
shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When
in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
So long as men can breath, or eyes can see,
So
long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
1) hath: (old use or bible) has
2) complexion: 1. the natural colour and appearance of the skin, esp. of the face:
a good/healthy/dark/fair/pale complexion
2. a general character or nature
This information puts a new complexion on the situation. (=completely changes it)
governments of various political complexions
