Poems by William Shakespeare
Shakespeare's Sonnets: I never saw that you did painting need
... y glory, being dumb,For I impair not beauty, being mute,When others would give life and bring a tomb ...
Shakespeare's Sonnets: If my dear love were but the child of state
... mb'red hours,But all alone stands hugely politicThat it nor grows with heat, nor drowns with show'rs ...
Shakespeare's Sonnets: If the dull substance of my flesh were thought
... leisure with my moan, Receiving naughts by elements so slow But heavy tears, badges of either's woe ...
Shakespeare's Sonnets: If there be nothing new, but that which is
... ution be the same! Oh sure I am the wits of former days To subjects worse have giv'n admiring praise ...
Shakespeare's Sonnets: If thou survive my well-contented day
... uipage: But since he died and poets better prove, Theirs for their style I'll read, his for his love ...
Shakespeare's Sonnets: If thy soul check thee that I come so near
... I one must be,For nothing hold me, so it please thee holdThat nothing me, a some-thing sweet to thee ...
Shakespeare's Sonnets: In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes
... erving theeWho leaves unsway'd the likeness of a man,Thy proud heart's slave and vassal wretch to be ...
Shakespeare's Sonnets: In loving thee thou know'st I am forsworn
... constancy,And to enlighten thee gave eyes to blindness,Or made them swear against the thing they see ...
Shakespeare's Sonnets: In the old age black was not counted fair
... they mourners seemAt such who, not born fair, no beauty lack,Sland'ring creation with a false esteem ...
Shakespeare's Sonnets: Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye
... o destroys it: No love tow'rd others in that bosom sits That on himself such murd'rous shame commits ...
Shakespeare's Sonnets: Is it thy will thy image should keep op'n
... s mine eye awake,Mine own true love that doth my rest defeat,To play the watch-man ever for thy sake ...
Shakespeare's Sonnets: Let me confess that we two must be twain
... from thy name: But do not so, I love thee in such sort, As thou being mine, mine is thy good report ...
Shakespeare's Sonnets: Let me not to the marriage of true minds
... t ev'n to the edge of doom: If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved ...
Shakespeare's Sonnets: Let not my love be call'd idolatry
... er words,And in this change is my invention spent,Three themes in one, which wond'rous scope affords ...
Shakespeare's Sonnets: Let those who are in favour with their stars
... rior famoused for worth,After a thousand victories once foil'd,Is from the book of honour rasè ...
