English Poem

Sonnets CXVI: Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Let me not to the marriage of true mindsAdmit impediments. Love is not loveWhich alters when it alteration finds,Or bends…

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Sonnets CX: Alas, ’tis true I have gone here and there

Alas, 'tis true I have gone here and thereAnd made myself a motley to the view,Gor'd mine own thoughts, sold…

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Sonnet XXXVIII: How Can My Muse Want Subject to Invent

How can my muse want subject to invent,While thou dost breathe, that pour'st into my verseThine own sweet argument, too…

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Sonnet XXX: When to the sessions of sweet silent thought

When to the sessions of sweet silent thoughtI summon up remembrance of things past,I sigh the lack of many a…

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Sonnet XV: When I consider everything that grows

When I consider everything that growsHolds in perfection but a little moment,That this huge stage presenteth nought but showsWhereon the…

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Sonnet V: Those Hours, That With Gentle Work Did Frame

Those hours, that with gentle work did frameThe lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell,Will play the tyrants to the…

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Sonnet IV: Unthrifty Loveliness, Why Dost Thou Spend

Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spendUpon thy self thy beauty's legacy?Nature's bequest gives nothing, but doth lend,And being frank she…

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Sonnet II: When Forty Winters Shall Besiege Thy Brow

When forty winters shall besiege thy brow,And dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field,Thy youth's proud livery, so gazed on…

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Sonnet CXXX: My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;Coral is far more red than her lips' red:If snow be white, why…

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Sonnet CXLV

Those lips that Love's own hand did makeBreath'd forth the sound that said I hateTo me that languish'd for her…

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