Shakespeare’s Sonnets are some of the most fascinating and influential poems written in English. First published in 1609, […]
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«How can my Muse want subject to invent, While thou dost breathe, that pour’st into my verse». Like […]
«As a decrepit father takes delight To see his active child do deeds of youth». Sonnet 37, which […]
«Let me confess that we two must be twain, Although our undivided loves are one». Obstacles to the […]
«No more be grieved at that which thou hast done: Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud». Whereas […]
«Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day, And make me travel forth without my cloak». The poet […]
«Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye». Sonnet 33 begins a […]
«If thou survive my well-contented day, When that churl Death my bones with dust shall cover». Sonnet 32 […]
«Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts, Which I by lacking have supposed dead». Sonnet 31 expands upon […]
«When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past». The poet repeats […]
«When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state». Resenting his bad […]
«How can I then return in happy plight, That am debarr’d the benefit of rest?». Images of absence, […]
«Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage Thy merit hath my duty strongly knit». Sonnet 26 prepares […]