Poetry - Shakespeare
Online sonnets by William Shakespeare, the famous poet of England.
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A poem to help immortalize English History. From neolithic man to our present queen Elizabeth II. Sonnet 11 - William Shakespeare
As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou growest In one of thine, from that which thou departest ... Sonnet 110 - William Shakespeare
Alas, 'tis true I have gone here and there And made myself a motley to the view ... Sonnet 111 - William Shakespeare
O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds ... Sonnet 112 - William Shakespeare
Your love and pity doth the impression fill Which vulgar scandal stamp'd upon my brow ... Sonnet 113 - William Shakespeare
Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind; And that which governs me to go about ... Sonnet 114 - William Shakespeare
Or whether doth my mind, being crown'd with you, Drink up the monarch's plague, this flattery? Sonnet 115 - William Shakespeare
Those lines that I before have writ do lie, Even those that said I could not love you dearer ... Sonnet 116 - William Shakespeare
Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love ... Sonnet 117 - William Shakespeare
Accuse me thus: that I have scanted all Wherein I should your great deserts repay ... Sonnet 118 - William Shakespeare
Like as, to make our appetites more keen, With eager compounds we our palate urge ... Sonnet 119 - William Shakespeare
What potions have I drunk of Siren tears, Distill'd from limbecks foul as hell within ... Sonnet 12 - William Shakespeare 
When I do count the clock that tells the time, And see the brave day sunk in hideous night ... Sonnet 120 - William Shakespeare
That you were once unkind befriends me now, And for that sorrow which I then did feel ... Sonnet 121 - William Shakespeare
'Tis better to be vile than vile esteem'd, When not to be receives reproach of being ... Sonnet 122 - William Shakespeare
Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain, Full character'd with lasting memory ... Sonnet 123 - William Shakespeare
No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change: Thy pyramids built up with newer might ... Sonnet 124 - William Shakespeare
If my dear love were but the child of state, It might for Fortune's bastard be unfather'd' ... Sonnet 125 - William Shakespeare
Were 't aught to me I bore the canopy, With my extern the outward honouring ... Sonnet 126 - William Shakespeare
O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power Dost hold Time's fickle glass, his sickle, hour ... Sonnet 127 - William Shakespeare
In the old age black was not counted fair, Or if it were, it bore not beauty's name ... Sonnet 128 - William Shakespeare
How oft, when thou, my music, music play'st, Upon that blessed wood whose motion sounds ... Sonnet 129 - William Shakespeare
The expense of spirit in a waste of shame Is lust in action; and till action, lust Sonnet 13 - William Shakespeare
O, that you were yourself! but, love, you are No longer yours than you yourself here live ... Sonnet 130 - William Shakespeare
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips' red ... Sonnet 131 - William Shakespeare
Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art, As those whose beauties proudly make them cruel ... Sonnet 132 - William Shakespeare
Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torments me with disdain ... Sonnet 133 - William Shakespeare
Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan For that deep wound it gives my friend and me! Sonnet 134 - William Shakespeare
So, now I have confess'd that he is thine, And I myself am mortgaged to thy will ... Sonnet 135 - William Shakespeare
Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy 'Will,' And 'Will' to boot, and 'Will' in overplus ... Sonnet 136 - William Shakespeare
If thy soul cheque thee that I come so near, Swear to thy blind soul that I was thy 'Will,' ... Sonnet 138 - William Shakespeare
When my love swears that she is made of truth I do believe her, though I know she lies ... Sonnet 14 - William Shakespeare
Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck; And yet methinks I have astronomy ... Sonnet 146 - William Shakespeare
Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth, My sinful earth these rebel powers array ... Sonnet 147 - William Shakespeare
My love is as a fever, longing still For that which longer nurseth the disease ... Sonnet 148 - William Shakespeare
O me! what eyes hath love put in my head Which have no correspondence with true sight ... Sonnet 15 - William Shakespeare
When I consider every thing that grows Holds in perfection but a little moment ... Sonnet 16 - William Shakespeare
But wherefore do not you a mightier way Make war upon this bloody tyrant, Time ... Sonnet 17 - William Shakespeare
Who will believe my verse in time to come, If it were fill'd with your most high deserts? Sonnet 18 - William Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate ... Sonnet 19 - William Shakespeare
Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws, And make the earth devour her own sweet brood ... Sonnet 20 - William Shakespeare
A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted Hast thou, the master-mistress of my passion ... Sonnet 21 - William Shakespeare
So is it not with me as with that Muse Stirr'd by a painted beauty to his verse ... Sonnet 22 - William Shakespeare
My glass shall not persuade me I am old, So long as youth and thou are of one date ... Sonnet 23 - William Shakespeare
As an unperfect actor on the stage Who with his fear is put besides his part ... Sonnet 24 - William Shakespeare
Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stell'd Thy beauty's form in table of my heart ... Sonnet 25 - William Shakespeare
Let those who are in favour with their stars Of public honour and proud titles boast ... Sonnet 29 - William Shakespeare
When, in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state ... Sonnet 3 - William Shakespeare
Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest Now is the time that face should form another ... Sonnet 30 - William Shakespeare
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past ... T.S. Eliot
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