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(1564 - 1616) William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply ... Read more
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Aubade
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Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind
Bridal Song
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Dirge
Dirge Of The Three Queens
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Fairy Land I
Fairy Land II
Fairy Land III
Fairy Land IV
Fairy Land V
Fidele
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It Was A Lover And His Lass
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Love
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Orpheus
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Silvia
Sonnet 001: From Fairest Creatures We Desire Increase
Sonnet 002: When Forty Winters Shall Besiege Thy Brow
Sonnet 003: Look In Thy Glass, And Tell The Face Thou Viewest
Sonnet 004: Unthrifty Loveliness, Why Dost Thou Spend
Sonnet 005: Those Hours, That With Gentle Work Did Frame
Sonnet 006: Then Let Not Winter’s Ragged Hand Deface
Sonnet 007: Lo, In The Orient When The Gracious Light
Sonnet 008: Music To Hear, Why Hear’st Thou Music Sadly?
Sonnet 009: Is It For Fear To Wet A Widow’s Eye
Sonnet 010: For Shame, Deny That Thou Bear’st Love To Any
Sonnet 011: As Fast As Thou Shalt Wane, So Fast Thou Grow’st
Sonnet 012: When I Do Count The Clock That Tells The Time
Sonnet 013: O, That You Were Your Self! But, Love, You Are
Sonnet 014: Not From The Stars Do I My Judgement Pluck
Sonnet 015: When I Consider Every Thing That Grows
Sonnet 016: But Wherefore Do Not You A Mightier Way
Sonnet 017: Who Will Believe My Verse In Time To Come
Sonnet 018: Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer’s Day?
Sonnet 019: Devouring Time Blunt Thou The Lion’s Paws
Sonnet 020: A Woman’s Face With Nature’s Own Hand Painted
Sonnet 021: So Is It Not With Me As With That Muse
Sonnet 022: My Glass Shall Not Persuade Me I Am Old
Sonnet 023: As An Unperfect Actor On The Stage
Sonnet 024: Mine Eye Hath Played The Painter And Hath Stelled
Sonnet 025: Let Those Who Are In Favour With Their Stars
Sonnet 026: Lord Of My Love, To Whom In Vassalage
Sonnet 027: Weary With Toil, I Haste Me To My Bed
Sonnet 028: How Can I Then Return In Happy Plight
Sonnet 029: When In Disgrace With Fortune And Men’s Eyes
Sonnet 030: When To The Sessions Of Sweet Silent Thought
Sonnet 031: Thy Bosom Is Endearèd With All Hearts
Sonnet 032: If Thou Survive My Well-Contented Day
Sonnet 033: Full Many A Glorious Morning Have I Seen
Sonnet 034: Why Didst Thou Promise Such A Beauteous Day
Sonnet 035: No More Be Grieved At That Which Thou Hast Done
Sonnet 036: Let Me Confess That We Two Must Be Twain
Sonnet 037: As A Decrepit Father Takes Delight
Sonnet 038: How Can My Muse Want Subject To Invent
Sonnet 039: O, How Thy Worth With Manners May I Sing
Sonnet 040: Take All My Loves, My Love, Yea, Take Them All
Sonnet 041: Those Pretty Wrongs That Liberty Commits
Sonnet 042: That Thou Hast Her, It Is Not All My Grief
Sonnet 043: When Most I Wink, Then Do Mine Eyes Best See
Sonnet 044: If The Dull Substance Of My Flesh Were Thought
Sonnet 045: The Other Two, Slight Air And Purging Fire
Sonnet 046: Mine Eye And Heart Are At A Mortal War
Sonnet 047: Betwixt Mine Eye And Heart A League Is Took
Sonnet 048: How Careful Was I, When I Took My Way
Sonnet 049: Against That Time, If Ever That Time Come
Sonnet 050: How Heavy Do I Journey On The Way
Sonnet 051: Thus Can My Love Excuse The Slow Offence
Sonnet 053: What Is Your Substance, Whereof Are You Made
Sonnet 054: O, How Much More Doth Beauty Beauteous Seem
Sonnet 055: Not Marble, Nor The Gilded Monuments
Sonnet 056: Sweet Love, Renew Thy Force, Be It Not Said
Sonnet 057: Being Your Slave, What Should I Do But Tend
Sonnet 058: That God Forbid, That Made Me First Your Slave
Sonnet 059: If There Be Nothing New, But That Which Is
Sonnet 060: Like As The Waves Make Towards The Pebbled Shore
Sonnet 061: Is It Thy Will Thy Image Should Keep Open
Sonnet 062: Sin Of Self-Love Possesseth All Mine Eye
Sonnet 063: Against My Love Shall Be, As I Am Now
Sonnet 064: When I Have Seen By Time’s Fell Hand Defaced
Sonnet 065: Since Brass, Nor Stone, Nor Earth, Nor Boundless Sea
Sonnet 066: Tired With All These, For Restful Death I Cry
Sonnet 067: Ah, Wherefore With Infection Should He Live
Sonnet 068: Thus Is His Cheek The Map Of Days Outworn
Sonnet 069: Those Parts Of Thee That The World’s Eye Doth View
Sonnet 070: That Thou Art Blamed Shall Not Be Thy Defect
Sonnet 071: No Longer Mourn For Me When I Am Dead
Sonnet 072: O, Lest The World Should Task You To Recite
Sonnet 073: That Time Of Year Thou Mayst In Me Behold
Sonnet 074: But Be Contented When That Fell Arrest
Sonnet 075: So Are You To My Thoughts As Food To Life
Sonnet 076: Why Is My Verse So Barren Of New Pride?
Sonnet 077: Thy Glass Will Show Thee How Thy Beauties Wear
Sonnet 078: So Oft Have I Invoked Thee For My Muse
Sonnet 079: Whilst I Alone Did Call Upon Thy Aid
Sonnet 080: O, How I Faint When I Of You Do Write
Sonnet 081: Or I Shall Live Your Epitaph To Make
Sonnet 082: I Grant Thou Wert Not Married To My Muse
Sonnet 083: I Never Saw That You Did Painting Need
Sonnet 084: Who Is It That Says Most, Which Can Say More
Sonnet 085: My Tongue-Tied Muse In Manners Holds Her Still
Sonnet 086: Was It The Proud Full Sail Of His Great Verse
Sonnet 087: Farewell! Thou Art Too Dear For My Possessing
Sonnet 088: When Thou Shalt Be Disposed To Set Me Light
Sonnet 089: Say That Thou Didst Forsake Me For Some Fault
Sonnet 090: Then Hate Me When Thou Wilt; If Ever, Now
Sonnet 091: Some Glory In Their Birth, Some In Their Skill
Sonnet 092: But Do Thy Worst To Steal Thy Self Away
Sonnet 093: So Shall I Live, Supposing Thou Art True
Sonnet 094: They That Have Power To Hurt And Will Do None
Sonnet 095: How Sweet And Lovely Dost Thou Make The Shame
Sonnet 096: Some Say Thy Fault Is Youth, Some Wantonness
Sonnet 097: How Like A Winter Hath My Absence Been
Sonnet 098: From You Have I Been Absent In The Spring
Sonnet 099: The Forward Violet Thus Did I Chide
Sonnet 100: Where Art Thou, Muse, That Thou Forget’st So Long
Sonnet 101: O Truant Muse, What Shall Be Thy Amends
Sonnet 102: My Love Is Strengthened, Though More Weak In Seeming
Sonnet 103: Alack, What Poverty My Muse Brings Forth
Sonnet 104: To Me, Fair Friend, You Never Can Be Old
Sonnet 105: Let Not My Love Be Called Idolatry
Sonnet 106: When In The Chronicle Of Wasted Time
Sonnet 107: Not Mine Own Fears, Nor The Prophetic Soul
Sonnet 108: What’s In The Brain That Ink May Character
Sonnet 109: O, Never Say That I Was False Of Heart
Sonnet 110: Alas, ’Tis True, I Have Gone Here And There
Sonnet 111: O, For My Sake Do You With Fortune Chide
Sonnet 112: Your Love And Pity Doth Th’ Impression Fill
Sonnet 113: Since I Left You, Mine Eye Is In My Mind
Sonnet 114: Or Whether Doth My Mind, Being Crowned With You
Sonnet 115: Those Lines That I Before Have Writ Do Lie
Sonnet 116: Let Me Not To The Marriage Of True Minds
Sonnet 117: Accuse Me Thus: That I Have Scanted All
Sonnet 118: Like As To Make Our Appetite More Keen
Sonnet 119: What Potions Have I Drunk Of Siren Tears
Sonnet 120: That You Were Once Unkind Befriends Me Now
Sonnet 121: Tis Better To Be Vile Than Vile Esteemed
Sonnet 122: Thy Gift, Thy Tables, Are Within My Brain
Sonnet 123: No, Time, Thou Shalt Not Boast That I Do Change
Sonnet 124: If My Dear Love Were But The Child Of State
Sonnet 125: Were’t Aught To Me I Bore The Canopy
Sonnet 126: O Thou, My Lovely Boy, Who In Thy Power
Sonnet 127: In The Old Age Black Was Not Counted Fair
Sonnet 128: How Oft, When Thou, My Music, Music Play’st
Sonnet 129: Th’ Expense Of Spirit In A Waste Of Shame
Sonnet 130: My Mistress’ Eyes Are Nothing Like The Sun
Sonnet 131: Thou Art As Tyrannous, So As Thou Art
Sonnet 132: Thine Eyes I Love, And They, As Pitying Me
Sonnet 133: Beshrew That Heart That Makes My Heart To Groan
Sonnet 134: So, Now I Have Confessed That He Is Thine
Sonnet 135: Whoever Hath Her Wish, Thou Hast Thy Will
Sonnet 136: If Thy Soul Check Thee That I Come So Near
Sonnet 137: Thou Blind Fool, Love, What Dost Thou To Mine Eyes
Sonnet 138: When My Love Swears That She Is Made Of Truth
Sonnet 139: O, Call Not Me To Justify The Wrong
Sonnet 140: Be Wise As Thou Art Cruel; Do Not Press
Sonnet 141: In Faith, I Do Not Love Thee With Mine Eyes
Sonnet 142: Love Is My Sin, And Thy Dear Virtue Hate
Sonnet 143: Lo, As A Careful Huswife Runs To Catch
Sonnet 144: Two Loves I Have, Of Comfort And Despair
Sonnet 145: Those Lips That Love’s Own Hand Did Make
Sonnet 146: Poor Soul, The Centre Of My Sinful Earth
Sonnet 147: My Love Is As A Fever, Longing Still
Sonnet 148: O Me! What Eyes Hath Love Put In My Head
Sonnet 149: Canst Thou, O Cruel, Say I Love Thee Not
Sonnet 150: O From What Power Hast Thou This Powerful Might
Sonnet 151: Love Is Too Young To Know What Conscience Is
Sonnet 152: In Loving Thee Thou Know’st I Am Forsworn
Sonnet 153: Cupid Laid By His Brand And Fell Asleep
Sonnet 154: The Little Love-God Lying Once Asleep
Spring And Winter I
Spring And Winter II
Sweet-And-Twenty
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Take, O Take Those Lips Away
The Blossom
The Phoenix And The Turtle
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Under The Greenwood Tree
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Venus And Adonis
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