William Shakespeare

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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Sonnet CVII: Not Mine Own Fears, Nor the Prophetic Soul

Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soulOf the wide world dreaming on things to come,Can yet the lease of…

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Sonnet 106: When in the Chronicle of Wasted Time

When in the chronicle of wasted timeI see descriptions of the fairest wights,And beauty making beautiful old rhymeIn praise of…

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Orpheus with his Lute Made Trees

Orpheus with his lute made trees,And the mountain tops that freeze,Bow themselves, when he did sing:To his music plants and…

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from Venus and Adonis

But, lo! from forth a copse that neighbours by,A breeding jennet, lusty, young, and proud,Adonis' trampling courser doth espy,And forth…

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Fairy Land v

FULL fathom five thy father lies;Of his bones are coral made;Those are pearls that were his eyes:Nothing of him that…

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Fairy Land III

COME unto these yellow sands,And then take hands:Court'sied when you have, and kiss'd,--The wild waves whist,--Foot it featly here and…

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