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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 2,670 Views
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Under the Greenwood Tree 1,629 Views
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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 754 Views
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Silvia
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Fear No More
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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 516 Views
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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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Dirge
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Sonnet 104: To me, fair friend, you never can be old
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Hark! Hark! The Lark
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Aubade
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Twelve O'Clock - Fairy time 268 Views
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Full Fathom Five 260 Views
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Dirge of the Three Queens
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It was a Lover and his Lass
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O Never Say That I Was False of Heart
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Sonnet 12: When I do count the clock that tells the time
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Juliet's Soliloquy
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Bridal Song
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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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Sonnet 46: Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war
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Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck (Sonnet 14)
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from Venus and Adonis
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Sonnet 16: But wherefore do not you a mightier way
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My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun (Sonnet 130)
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Sonnet 119: What potions have I drunk of Siren tears
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Sonnet 41: Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits
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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 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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From you have I been absent in the spring... (Sonnet 98)
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Sonnet 33: Full many a glorious morning have I seen
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Sonnet 102: My love is strengthened, though more weak in seeming
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Sonnet 154: The little Love-god lying once asleep
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Sonnet 55: Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
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Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind
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Sonnet 54: O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem
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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 145: Those lips that Love's own hand did make
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Sonnet 1:
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Sonnet 4: Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend
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Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile
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Sonnet 58: That god forbid, that made me first your slave
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Fairy Land v 150 Views
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Sonnet 121:Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed
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Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
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Sonnet 23: As an unperfect actor on the stage
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Sonnet 51: Thus can my love excuse the slow offence
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Sonnet 15:
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Sonnet 27: Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed 146 Views
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Sonnet 65: Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea
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Sonnet 63: Against my love shall be, as I am now
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Sonnet 112: Your love and pity doth th' impression fill 142 Views
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Sonnet 61: Is it thy will thy image should keep open
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Sonnet 114: Or whether doth my mind, being crowned with you
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Sonnet 24: Mine eye hath played the painter and hath stelled
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Fairy Land ii
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Sonnet 137: Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes
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Sonnet 63: Against my love shall be as I am now
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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 135 Views
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To me, fair Friend, you never can be old, 134 Views
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Fairy Land i 133 Views
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Sonnet 118: Like as to make our appetite more keen
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Sonnet 101: O truant Muse, what shall be thy amends
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Sonnet 123: No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change
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Sonnet 53: What is your substance, whereof are you made
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Sonnet 21: So is it not with me as with that muse
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Sonnet 52: So am I as the rich whose blessèd key
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Sonnet 103: Alack, what poverty my Muse brings forth 129 Views
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Sonet LIV
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Sonnet 130: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun
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Sonnet 19: Devouring Time blunt thou the lion's paws
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Sonnet 39: O, how thy worth with manners may I sing
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Sonnet 122: Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain
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Sonnet 59: If there be nothing new, but that which is 126 Views
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How Like A Winter Hath My Absence Been
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Sonnet 135: Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy will
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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 60: Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore
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Sonnet 11: As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou grow'st
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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 120: That you were once unkind befriends me now 122 Views
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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 45: The other two, slight air and purging fire
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Sonnet 136: If thy soul check thee that I come so near
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Sonnet 42: That thou hast her, it is not all my grief
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Sonnet 100: Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long
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Sonnet 134: So, now I have confessed that he is thine 107 Views
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Sonnet 32: If thou survive my well-contented day
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Sonnet 37: As a decrepit father takes delight
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Sonnet 142: Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate
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Sonnet 24: “Mine eye hath played the painter and hath stelled…”
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Sonnet 14: Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck
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Sonnet 144: Two loves I have, of comfort and despair
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Sonnet 150: O from what power hast thou this powerful might
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Sonnet 151: Love is too young to know what conscience is
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Sonnet 6: Then let not winter's ragged hand deface
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Sonnet 149: Canst thou, O cruel, say I love thee not
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Sonnet 36: Let me confess that we two must be twain
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Sonnet 106: When in the chronicle of wasted time
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Sonnet 110: Alas, 'tis true, I have gone here and there
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Sonnet 113: Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind
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Sonnet 138: When my love swears that she is made of truth
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Sonnet 26: Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage…
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Sonnet 132: Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me
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Sonnet 153: Cupid laid by his brand and fell asleep
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Sonnet 64: When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced
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Sonnet 115: Those lines that I before have writ do lie
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Sonnet 122: Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain
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Sonnet 128: How oft, when thou, my music, music play'st
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Sonnet 145:
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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 25: Let those who are in favour with their stars
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Sonnet 44: If the dull substance of my flesh were thought
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Sonnet 28: How can I then return in happy plight
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Sonnet 38: How can my Muse want subject to invent
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Sonnet 47: Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took
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Not marble nor the guilded monuments (Sonnet 55)
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Sonnet 35: No more be grieved at that which thou hast done
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Sonnet 50: How heavy do I journey on the way
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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 49: Against that time, if ever that time come
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Sonnet 143: Lo, as a careful huswife runs to catch
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Sonnet 20: A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted
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Sonnet 105: Let not my love be called idolatry 72 Views
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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 40: Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all
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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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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 1: From fairest creatures we desire increase
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Sonnet 107:
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Sonnet 2:
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Sonnet 109: O, never say that I was false of heart
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Sonnet 34: Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day
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Sonnet 111: O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide
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The Rape of Lucrece
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Ella Who Was A Big Smella
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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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The Sonnets CIII - Alack! what poverty my Muse brings forth 15 Views
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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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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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Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
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Balllssss
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Sonnet 18
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Balllsss
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Sonnet: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
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Our Lovely Summer Sonnet.
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Our Lovely Summer Sonnet
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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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