You want a good one?
MEMORIZE a Shakespeare sonnet, and recite it to her by candlelight.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Billy 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 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 ow'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 breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
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Probably the most famous of all Shakespeare's Sonnets (please, lets not get into a debate which one is best, I am just giving the poor guy some advice here), and you can impress your friends with your vast poetic range.
Do they make kids memorize poems in school anymore?