In "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day", what conventional images does Shakespeare use to express love?

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"summer's day"

"thy eternal summer shall not fade,"

"Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May / And summer's lease hath all too short a date:"

Sonnet 18