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William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon".

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A Fairy Song
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Under the Greenwood Tree
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Carpe Diem
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Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? (Sonnet 18)
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Orpheus
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Love
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Fear No More
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Silvia
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All the World's a Stage
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Orpheus with his Lute Made Trees
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Fairy Land iii
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A Madrigal
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Sonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds
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A Lover's Complaint
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Sigh No More
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Hark! Hark! The Lark
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Dirge
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Full Fathom Five
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Sonnet 104: To me, fair friend, you never can be old
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Aubade
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Twelve O'Clock - Fairy time
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Dirge of the Three Queens
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It was a Lover and his Lass
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Sonnet 12: When I do count the clock that tells the time
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O Never Say That I Was False of Heart
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My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun (Sonnet 130)
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Juliet's Soliloquy
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Sonnet 147: My love is as a fever, longing still
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Sonnet 62: Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye
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Bridal Song
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Sonnet 46: Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war
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Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile
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from Venus and Adonis
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Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck (Sonnet 14)
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Sonnet 119: What potions have I drunk of Siren tears
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Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind
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Sonnet 16: But wherefore do not you a mightier way
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Sonnet 66: Tired with all these, for restful death I cry
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Fidele
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Sonnet 146:
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Sonnet 41: Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits
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Sonnet 102: My love is strengthened, though more weak in seeming
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Sonnet 22: My glass shall not persuade me I am old
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Sonnet 133: Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan
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Sonnet 33: Full many a glorious morning have I seen
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From you have I been absent in the spring... (Sonnet 98)
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Sonnet 54: O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem
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Sonnet 55: Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
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Sonnet 154: The little Love-god lying once asleep
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Sonnet 1:
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Sonnet 57: Being your slave, what should I do but tend
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Sonnet 30: When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
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Sonnet 121:Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed
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Sonnet 145: Those lips that Love's own hand did make
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Sonnet 23: As an unperfect actor on the stage
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Sonnet 4: Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend
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Sonnet 58: That god forbid, that made me first your slave
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Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
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Fairy Land v
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Sonnet 65: Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea
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Sonnet 27: Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed
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Sonnet 51: Thus can my love excuse the slow offence
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Sonnet 60: Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore
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Sonnet 15:
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Sonnet 63: Against my love shall be, as I am now
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Sonnet 52: So am I as the rich whose blessèd key
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Sonnet 112: Your love and pity doth th' impression fill
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Fairy Land ii
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Sonnet 61: Is it thy will thy image should keep open
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Sonnet 24: Mine eye hath played the painter and hath stelled
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Sonnet 63: Against my love shall be as I am now
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Sonnet 114: Or whether doth my mind, being crowned with you
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Sonnet 118: Like as to make our appetite more keen
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Sonnet 21: So is it not with me as with that muse
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Fairy Land i
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Sonnet 120: That you were once unkind befriends me now
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Sonnet 123: No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change
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Sonnet 15: When I consider every thing that grows
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Sonnet 43: When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see
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Sonnet 101: O truant Muse, what shall be thy amends
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Sonnet 137: Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes
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Sonnet 53: What is your substance, whereof are you made
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To me, fair Friend, you never can be old,
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Sonnet 130: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun
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Sonnet 39: O, how thy worth with manners may I sing
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Sonnet 103: Alack, what poverty my Muse brings forth
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Sonnet 122: Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain
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Sonnet 19: Devouring Time blunt thou the lion's paws
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How Like A Winter Hath My Absence Been
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Sonet LIV
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Sonnet 59: If there be nothing new, but that which is
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Sonnet 135: Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy will
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Sonnet 11: As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou grow'st
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Sonnet 48: How careful was I, when I took my way
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Sonnet 56: Sweet love, renew thy force, be it not said
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Sonnet 100: Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long
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Sonnet 129: Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame
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Sonnet 108: What's in the brain that ink may character
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Sonnet 141: In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes
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Sonnet 14: “Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck…”
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Sonnet 140: Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press
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Sonnet 136: If thy soul check thee that I come so near
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Sonnet 45: The other two, slight air and purging fire
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Sonnet 42: That thou hast her, it is not all my grief
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Sonnet 115: Those lines that I before have writ do lie
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Sonnet 144: Two loves I have, of comfort and despair
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Sonnet 37: As a decrepit father takes delight
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Sonnet 134: So, now I have confessed that he is thine
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Sonnet 32: If thou survive my well-contented day
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Sonnet 142: Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate
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Sonnet 14: Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck
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Sonnet 24: “Mine eye hath played the painter and hath stelled…”
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Sonnet 6: Then let not winter's ragged hand deface
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Sonnet 151: Love is too young to know what conscience is
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Sonnet 150: O from what power hast thou this powerful might
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Sonnet 36: Let me confess that we two must be twain
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Sonnet 149: Canst thou, O cruel, say I love thee not
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Sonnet 64: When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced
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Sonnet 110: Alas, 'tis true, I have gone here and there
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Sonnet 106: When in the chronicle of wasted time
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Sonnet 138: When my love swears that she is made of truth
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Sonnet 122: Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain
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Sonnet 26: Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage…
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Sonnet 113: Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind
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Sonnet 132: Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me
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Sonnet 145:
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Sonnet 153: Cupid laid by his brand and fell asleep
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Sonnet 25: Let those who are in favour with their stars
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Sonnet 128: How oft, when thou, my music, music play'st
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Sonnet 146: Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth
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Sonnet 5: Those hours, that with gentle work did frame
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Sonnet 10: For shame, deny that thou bear'st love to any
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Sonnet 17: Who will believe my verse in time to come
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Sonnet 148: O me! what eyes hath love put in my head
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Sonnet 28: How can I then return in happy plight
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Not marble nor the guilded monuments (Sonnet 55)
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Sonnet 44: If the dull substance of my flesh were thought
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Sonnet 47: Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took
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Sonnet 38: How can my Muse want subject to invent
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The Passionate Pilgrim
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Sonnet 2: When forty winters shall besiege thy brow
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Sonnet 50: How heavy do I journey on the way
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Sonnet 35: No more be grieved at that which thou hast done
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Sonnet 143: Lo, as a careful huswife runs to catch
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Sonnet 49: Against that time, if ever that time come
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Sonnet 20: A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted
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Sonnet 40: Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all
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Sonnet 105: Let not my love be called idolatry
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Sonnet 125: Were't aught to me I bore the canopy
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Sonnet 64:
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Sonnet 131: Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art
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Sonnet 38:
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Sonnet 31: Thy bosom is endearèd with all hearts
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The Rape of Lucrece
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Sonnet 13: O, that you were your self! But, love, you are
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Sonnet 126: O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power
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Sonnet 139: O, call not me to justify the wrong
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Sonnet 107: Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul
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Sonnet 152: In loving thee thou know'st I am forsworn
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Sonnet 2:
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Sonnet 1: From fairest creatures we desire increase
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Sonnet 107:
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Sonnet 109: O, never say that I was false of heart
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Ella Who Was A Big Smella
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Sonnet 111: O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide
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Sonnet 34: Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day
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The Phoenix and the Turtle
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Life & Love
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Love is Life Itself
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The Sonnets LXXI - No longer mourn for me when I am dead
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Sonnet 18
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The Sonnets CIII - Alack! what poverty my Muse brings forth
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The Sonnets CXL - Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press
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The Sonnets CXXXII - Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me
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The Sonnets LVII - Being your slave what should I do but tend
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Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
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The Sonnets CXXIII - No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change
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Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
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Food in my mouth.
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Through love and pain we still see.
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Balllssss
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Our Lovely Summer Sonnet.
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Our Lovely Summer Sonnet
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Ballls
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Balllsss
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Sonnet: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
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Balllss
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  • karlcfolkes
    Growing up in Colonial Jamaica, and reciting many of his works, the Bard of Avon is he who provided the impetus for my poetry writing. His imprint remains indelible.
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