William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)

William Shakespeare was born in 1564 and died 1616. Called 'The Bard of Avon', this English poet and playwright wrote over 100 Sonnets and a number of immortal plays.

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	Poem	Comments
130.	Sonnet 130: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun	7 Comments
18.	Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?	6 Comments
62.	Sonnet 62: Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye	3 Comments
141.	Sonnet 141: In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes	2 Comments
20.	Sonnet 20: A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted	2 Comments
34.	Sonnet 34: Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day	2 Comments
55.	Sonnet 55: Not marble, nor the gilded monuments	2 Comments
91.	Sonnet 91: Some glory in their birth, some in their skill	2 Comments
104.	Sonnet 104: To me, fair friend, you never can be old	1 Comment
116.	Sonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds	1 Comment
129.	Sonnet 129: Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame	1 Comment
13.	Sonnet 13: O, that you were your self! But, love, you are	1 Comment
41.	Sonnet 41: Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits	1 Comment
42.	Sonnet 42: That thou hast her, it is not all my grief	1 Comment
65.	Sonnet 65: Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea	1 Comment
73.	Sonnet 73: That time of year thou mayst in me behold	1 Comment
94.	Sonnet 94: They that have power to hurt and will do none	1 Comment
	Venus And Adonis	1 Comment
100.	Sonnet 100: Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long
101.	Sonnet 101: O truant Muse, what shall be thy amends
102.	Sonnet 102: My love is strengthened, though more weak in seeming
103.	Sonnet 103: Alack, what poverty my Muse brings forth
105.	Sonnet 105: Let not my love be called idolatry
106.	Sonnet 106: When in the chronicle of wasted time
107.	Sonnet 107: Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul
108.	Sonnet 108: What's in the brain that ink may character
109.	Sonnet 109: O, never say that I was false of heart
10.	Sonnet 10: For shame, deny that thou bear'st love to any
110.	Sonnet 110: Alas, 'tis true, I have gone here and there
111.	Sonnet 111: O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide
112.	Sonnet 112: Your love and pity doth th' impression fill
113.	Sonnet 113: Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind
114.	Sonnet 114: Or whether doth my mind, being crowned with you
115.	Sonnet 115: Those lines that I before have writ do lie
117.	Sonnet 117: Accuse me thus: that I have scanted all
118.	Sonnet 118: Like as to make our appetite more keen
119.	Sonnet 119: What potions have I drunk of Siren tears
11.	Sonnet 11: As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou grow'st
120.	Sonnet 120: That you were once unkind befriends me now
121.	Sonnet 121: Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed
122.	Sonnet 122: Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain
123.	Sonnet 123: No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change
124.	Sonnet 124: If my dear love were but the child of state
125.	Sonnet 125: Were't aught to me I bore the canopy
126.	Sonnet 126: O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power
127.	Sonnet 127: In the old age black was not counted fair
128.	Sonnet 128: How oft, when thou, my music, music play'st
12.	Sonnet 12: When I do count the clock that tells the time
131.	Sonnet 131: Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art
132.	Sonnet 132: Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me
133.	Sonnet 133: Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan
134.	Sonnet 134: So, now I have confessed that he is thine
135.	Sonnet 135: Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy will
136.	Sonnet 136: If thy soul check thee that I come so near
137.	Sonnet 137: Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes
138.	Sonnet 138: When my love swears that she is made of truth
139.	Sonnet 139: O, call not me to justify the wrong
140.	Sonnet 140: Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press
142.	Sonnet 142: Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate
143.	Sonnet 143: Lo, as a careful huswife runs to catch
144.	Sonnet 144: Two loves I have, of comfort and despair
145.	Sonnet 145: Those lips that Love's own hand did make
146.	Sonnet 146: Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth
147.	Sonnet 147: My love is as a fever, longing still
148.	Sonnet 148: O me! what eyes hath love put in my head
149.	Sonnet 149: Canst thou, O cruel, say I love thee not
14.	Sonnet 14: Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck
150.	Sonnet 150: O from what power hast thou this powerful might
151.	Sonnet 151: Love is too young to know what conscience is
152.	Sonnet 152: In loving thee thou know'st I am forsworn
153.	Sonnet 153: Cupid laid by his brand and fell asleep
154.	Sonnet 154: The little Love-god lying once asleep
15.	Sonnet 15: When I consider every thing that grows
16.	Sonnet 16: But wherefore do not you a mightier way
17.	Sonnet 17: Who will believe my verse in time to come
19.	Sonnet 19: Devouring Time blunt thou the lion's paws
1.	Sonnet 1: From fairest creatures we desire increase
21.	Sonnet 21: So is it not with me as with that muse
22.	Sonnet 22: My glass shall not persuade me I am old
23.	Sonnet 23: As an unperfect actor on the stage
24.	Sonnet 24: Mine eye hath played the painter and hath stelled
25.	Sonnet 25: Let those who are in favour with their stars
26.	Sonnet 26: Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage
27.	Sonnet 27: Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed
28.	Sonnet 28: How can I then return in happy plight
29.	Sonnet 29: When in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes
2.	Sonnet 2: When forty winters shall besiege thy brow
30.	Sonnet 30: When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
31.	Sonnet 31: Thy bosom is endearèd with all hearts
32.	Sonnet 32: If thou survive my well-contented day
33.	Sonnet 33: Full many a glorious morning have I seen
35.	Sonnet 35: No more be grieved at that which thou hast done
36.	Sonnet 36: Let me confess that we two must be twain
37.	Sonnet 37: As a decrepit father takes delight
38.	Sonnet 38: How can my Muse want subject to invent
39.	Sonnet 39: O, how thy worth with manners may I sing
3.	Sonnet 3: Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest
40.	Sonnet 40: Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all
43.	Sonnet 43: When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see
44.	Sonnet 44: If the dull substance of my flesh were thought
45.	Sonnet 45: The other two, slight air and purging fire
46.	Sonnet 46: Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war
47.	Sonnet 47: Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took
48.	Sonnet 48: How careful was I, when I took my way
49.	Sonnet 49: Against that time, if ever that time come
4.	Sonnet 4: Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend
50.	Sonnet 50: How heavy do I journey on the way
51.	Sonnet 51: Thus can my love excuse the slow offence
52.	Sonnet 52: So am I as the rich whose blessèd key
53.	Sonnet 53: What is your substance, whereof are you made
54.	Sonnet 54: O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem
56.	Sonnet 56: Sweet love, renew thy force, be it not said
57.	Sonnet 57: Being your slave, what should I do but tend
58.	Sonnet 58: That god forbid, that made me first your slave
59.	Sonnet 59: If there be nothing new, but that which is
5.	Sonnet 5: Those hours, that with gentle work did frame
60.	Sonnet 60: Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore
61.	Sonnet 61: Is it thy will thy image should keep open
63.	Sonnet 63: Against my love shall be, as I am now
64.	Sonnet 64: When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced
66.	Sonnet 66: Tired with all these, for restful death I cry
67.	Sonnet 67: Ah, wherefore with infection should he live
68.	Sonnet 68: Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn
69.	Sonnet 69: Those parts of thee that the world's eye doth view
6.	Sonnet 6: Then let not winter's ragged hand deface
70.	Sonnet 70: That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect
71.	Sonnet 71: No longer mourn for me when I am dead
72.	Sonnet 72: O, lest the world should task you to recite
74.	Sonnet 74: But be contented when that fell arrest
75.	Sonnet 75: So are you to my thoughts as food to life
76.	Sonnet 76: Why is my verse so barren of new pride?
77.	Sonnet 77: Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear
78.	Sonnet 78: So oft have I invoked thee for my Muse
79.	Sonnet 79: Whilst I alone did call upon thy aid
7.	Sonnet 7: Lo, in the orient when the gracious light
80.	Sonnet 80: O, how I faint when I of you do write
81.	Sonnet 81: Or I shall live your epitaph to make
82.	Sonnet 82: I grant thou wert not married to my Muse
83.	Sonnet 83: I never saw that you did painting need
84.	Sonnet 84: Who is it that says most, which can say more
85.	Sonnet 85: My tongue-tied Muse in manners holds her still
86.	Sonnet 86: Was it the proud full sail of his great verse
87.	Sonnet 87: Farewell! Thou art too dear for my possessing
88.	Sonnet 88: When thou shalt be disposed to set me light
89.	Sonnet 89: Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault
8.	Sonnet 8: Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?
90.	Sonnet 90: Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now
92.	Sonnet 92: But do thy worst to steal thy self away
93.	Sonnet 93: So shall I live, supposing thou art true
95.	Sonnet 95: How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame
96.	Sonnet 96: Some say thy fault is youth, some wantonness
97.	Sonnet 97: How like a winter hath my absence been
98.	Sonnet 98: From you have I been absent in the spring
99.	Sonnet 99: The forward violet thus did I chide
9.	Sonnet 9: Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye