William Shakespeare

Venus and Adonis (excerpt)

Lo, here the gentle lark, weary of rest,From his moist cabinet mounts up on high,And wakes the morning, from whose…

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Witches Chant (from Macbeth)

Round about the couldron go:In the poisones entrails throw.Toad,that under cold stoneDays and nights has thirty-oneSweated venom sleeping got,Boil thou…

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Winter

When icicles hang by the wallAnd Dick the shepherd blows his nailAnd Tom bears logs into the hall,And milk comes…

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Venus and Adonis

'Vilia miretur vulgus; mihi flavus ApolloPocula Castalia plena ministret aqua.'TO THERIGHT HONORABLE HENRY WRIOTHESLY,EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON, AND BARON OF TICHFIELD.RIGHT…

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The Rape Of Lucrece

TO THERIGHT HONORABLE HENRY WRIOTHESLY,Earl of Southampton, and Baron of Tichfield.The love I dedicate to your lordship is without end;…

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The Phoenix and the Turtle

Let the bird of loudest layOn the sole Arabian treeHerald sad and trumpet be,To whose sound chaste wings obey.But thou…

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Take, O Take those Lips Away

Take, O take those lips away,That so sweetly were forsworn;And those eyes, the break of day,Lights that do mislead the…

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Sonnets XXXIII: Full many a glorious morning have I seen

Full many a glorious morning have I seenFlatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye,Kissing with golden face the meadows green,Gilding pale…

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Sonnets XXV: Let those who are in favour with their stars

Let those who are in favour with their starsOf public honour and proud titles boast,Whilst I, whom fortune of such…

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Sonnets XVIII: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate.Rough winds do shake the darling buds…

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