William Shakespeare
Playwright and poet whose 154 sonnets stand among the greatest lyric poems in the English language — maps of love, time, and mortality.
Poems by William Shakespeare
Fear No More
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet I
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet X
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet C
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet CI
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet CII
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet CIII
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet CIV
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet CV
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet CVI
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet CVII
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet CVIII
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet CIX
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet XI
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet CX
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet CXI
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet CXII
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet CXIII
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet CXIV
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet CXV
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Read poem ↗Sonnet 116 — Let me not to the marriage
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet CXVII
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet CXVIII
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet CXIX
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet XII
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet CXX
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet CXXI
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet CXXII
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet CXXIII
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet CXXIV
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet CXXV
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet CXXVI
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet CXXVII
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet CXXVIII
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet CXXIX
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet XIII
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Read poem ↗Sonnet 130 — My mistress' eyes
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet CXXXI
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet CXXXII
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet CXXXIII
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet CXXXIV
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet CXXXV
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet CXXXVI
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet CXXXVII
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet CXXXVIII
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet CXXXIX
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet XIV
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet CXL
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet CXLI
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet CXLII
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet CXLIII
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet CXLIV
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet CXLV
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet CXLVI
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet CXLVII
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet CXLVIII
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet CXLIX
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet XV
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet CL
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet CLI
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet CLII
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet CLIII
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet CLIV
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet XVI
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet XVII
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Read poem ↗Sonnet 18 — Shall I compare thee
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet XIX
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet II
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet XX
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet XXI
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet XXII
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet XXIII
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet XXIV
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet XXV
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet XXVI
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet XXVII
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet XXVIII
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Read poem ↗Sonnet 29 — When, in disgrace
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet III
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet XXX
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet XXXI
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet XXXII
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet XXXIII
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet XXXIV
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet XXXV
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet XXXVI
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet XXXVII
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet XXXVIII
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet XXXIX
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet IV
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet XL
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet XLI
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet XLII
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet XLIII
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet XLIV
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet XLV
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet XLVI
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet XLVII
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet XLVIII
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet XLIX
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet V
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet L
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet LI
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet LII
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet LIII
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet LIV
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet LV
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet LVI
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet LVII
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet LVIII
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet LIX
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet VI
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet LX
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet LXI
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet LXII
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet LXIII
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet LXIV
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet LXV
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet LXVI
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet LXVII
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet LXVIII
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet LXIX
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet VII
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet LXX
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet LXXI
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet LXXII
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Read poem ↗Sonnet 73 — That time of year
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet LXXIV
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet LXXV
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet LXXVI
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet LXXVII
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet LXXVIII
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet LXXIX
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet VIII
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet LXXX
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet LXXXI
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet LXXXII
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet LXXXIII
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet LXXXIV
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet LXXXV
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet LXXXVI
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet LXXXVII
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet LXXXVIII
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet LXXXIX
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet IX
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet XC
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet XCI
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet XCII
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet XCIII
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet XCIV
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet XCV
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet XCVI
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet XCVII
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet XCVIII
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet XCIX
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Read poem ↗Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind
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Read poem ↗Orpheus with his Lute Made Trees
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Read poem ↗Sonnet 10: For shame! deny that thou bear'st love to any
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Read poem ↗Sonnet 11: As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou grow'st
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Read poem ↗Sonnet 12: When I do count the clock that tells the time
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Read poem ↗Sonnet 13: O! that you were your self; but, love you are
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Read poem ↗Sonnet 14: Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck
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Read poem ↗Sonnet 15: When I consider every thing that grows
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Read poem ↗Sonnet 16: But wherefore do not you a mightier way
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Read poem ↗Sonnet 17: Who will believe my verse in time to come
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Read poem ↗Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
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Read poem ↗Sonnet 19: Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws
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Read poem ↗Sonnet 1: From fairest creatures we desire increase
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Read poem ↗Sonnet 20: A woman's face with nature's own hand painted
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Read poem ↗Sonnet 21: So is it not with me as with that Muse
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Read poem ↗Sonnet 22: My glass shall not persuade me I am old
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Read poem ↗Sonnet 23: As an unperfect actor on the stage
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Read poem ↗Sonnet 24: Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stell'd
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Read poem ↗Sonnet 25: Let those who are in favour with their stars
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Read poem ↗Sonnet 26: Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage
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Read poem ↗Sonnet 27: Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed
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Read poem ↗Sonnet 28: How can I then return in happy plight
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Read poem ↗Sonnet 29: When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes
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Read poem ↗Sonnet 2: When forty winters shall besiege thy brow
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Read poem ↗Sonnet 30: When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
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Read poem ↗Sonnet 31: Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts
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Read poem ↗Sonnet 32: If thou survive my well-contented day
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Read poem ↗Sonnet 33: Full many a glorious morning have I seen
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Read poem ↗Sonnet 34: Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day
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Read poem ↗Sonnet 35: No more be griev'd at that which thou hast done
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Read poem ↗Sonnet 36: Let me confess that we two must be twain
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Read poem ↗Sonnet 37: As a decrepit father takes delight
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Read poem ↗Sonnet 38: How can my muse want subject to invent
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Read poem ↗Sonnet 39: O! how thy worth with manners may I sing
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Read poem ↗Sonnet 3: Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest
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Read poem ↗Sonnet 40: Take all my loves, my love, yea take them all
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Read poem ↗Sonnet 41: Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits
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Read poem ↗Sonnet 42: That thou hast her it is not all my grief
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Read poem ↗Sonnet 43: When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see
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Read poem ↗Sonnet 44: If the dull substance of my flesh were thought
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Read poem ↗Sonnet 45: The other two, slight air, and purging fire
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Read poem ↗Sonnet 46: Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war
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Read poem ↗Sonnet 47: Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took
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Read poem ↗Sonnet 48: How careful was I when I took my way
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Read poem ↗Sonnet 49: Against that time, if ever that time come
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Read poem ↗Sonnet 4: Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend
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Read poem ↗Sonnet 50: How heavy do I journey on the way
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Read poem ↗Sonnet 51: Thus can my love excuse the slow offence
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Read poem ↗Sonnet 52: So am I as the rich, whose blessed key
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Read poem ↗Sonnet 53: What is your substance, whereof are you made
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Read poem ↗Sonnet 5: Those hours, that with gentle work did frame
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Read poem ↗Sonnet 6: Then let not winter's ragged hand deface
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Read poem ↗Sonnet 7: Lo! in the orient when the gracious light
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Read poem ↗Sonnet 8: Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?
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Read poem ↗Sonnet 9: Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye
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Read poem ↗Spring
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Read poem ↗Spring and Winter i
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Read poem ↗Spring and Winter ii
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Read poem ↗Under the Greenwood Tree
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Read poem ↗Winter
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet XVIII
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet XXIX
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet LXXIII
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet CXVI
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Read poem ↗Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet CXXX
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