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Born in April 26, 1564 / Died in April 23, 1616 / United Kingdom / English

Poems by William Shakespeare

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Sonnet CXI: O, for my Sake do you with Fortune Chide

... Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, ...

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"Where the Bee Sucks, There Suck I"

... Under the blossom that hangs on the bough ...

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"Come Away, Come Away, Death"

...   My poor corpse, where my bones shall be thrown ...

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Sonnet XXV: Let those who are in Favour with their Stars

... Great princes' favourites their fair leaves spread ...

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Sonnet CXXX: My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing like the Sun

...  And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare ...

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Sonnet CXXIX: "Th'expense of spirit in a waste of shame"

...   To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell ...

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Sonnet CXLVI: Poor Soul, the Centre of my Sinful Earth

... And, Death once dead, there's no more dying then ...

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Sonnet CXXXV: Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy Will

...  Think all but one, and me in that one Will ...

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Sonnet I: From fairest creatures we desire increase

...  Pity the world, or else this glutton be, ...

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from Venus and Adonis

... trim,  But true sweet beautie liu'd, and di'de with him ...

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Sonnet XCVIII: From you have I been absent in the spring

...   Yet seem’d it winter still, and, you away, ...

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Hearke, Hearke, the Larke at Heauens Gate Sings

... With euery thing that pretty is, my Lady sweet arise: ...

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Sonnet CXXXVIII: When my love swears that she is made of truth

...   Therefore I lie with her and she with me, ...

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Sonnet XXX: When to the Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought

... For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, ...

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Sonnet CIV: To me, fair friend, you never can be old

... So your sweet hue, which methinks still doth stand, ...