Which excerpt from Shakespeare's "Sonnet 18" contains
an idea that most contrasts with the central idea in
Browning's lines?
Read the lines from Browning's "Sonnet 14."
If thou must love me, let it be for nought
Except for love's sake only. Do not say,
"I love her for her smile-her look-her way
Of speaking gently,—for a trick of thought
That falls in well with mine, and certes brought
A sense of pleasant ease on such a day"
O Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
O Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date;
O Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
O So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.