As one of Shakespeares first poems, it is totally powerful and strong. after some research I found out that there were many more editions of the ryme as I knew before. William Shakespeare dedicated it to a man called Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton and Baron of Tichfield and signed it with "Your honour's in all duty, William Shakespeare. You can find that letter before the poem started. What is it about? Well, we all know "Adonis", like "He looked like an Adonis" or kind of this. Venus is also really familair for many of us. Venus was sick of love. She was so mad about him. Kissed him all over but he didn't feel the same ... The Goddess of Love spoke a curse, after she lost him forever. "Fair flowers that are not gather'd in Theiß prime Rot and consume themselves in little time." "Love is a spirit all compact of fire , not gross to sink, but light, and will aspire."