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x Venus and Adonis Venus and Adonis quarto Epyllion   Written Work 1593
Venus and Adonis is a poem by William Shakespeare, written in 1592-93, with a plot based on passages from Ovid's Metamorphoses. It is a complex, kaleidoscopic work, using constantly shifting tone and perspective to present contrasting views of the...
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x The Rape of Lucrece Tizian 094 Rhyme royal Iambic pentameter Written Work 1594
The Rape of Lucrece (1594) is a narrative poem by William Shakespeare about the legendary Lucretia. In his previous narrative poem, Venus and Adonis (1593), Shakespeare had included a dedicatory letter to his patron, the Earl of Southampton, in...
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x The Passionate Pilgrim Shakespeare2     Written Work  
The Passionate Pilgrim is an anthology of poems, published in 1599, which according to the title-page were "By W. Shakespeare". The Passionate Pilgrim was published by William Jaggard, later the publisher of Shakespeare's First Folio. The first...
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x The Phoenix and the Turtle Shakespeare2     Written Work  
The Phoenix and the Turtle is an allegorical poem about the death of ideal love by William Shakespeare. It is widely considered to be one of his most obscure works and has led to many conflicting interpretations. It has also been called "the first...
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x A Lover's Complaint Shakespeare Rhyme royal   Written Work  
A Lover's Complaint is a narrative poem usually attributed to William Shakespeare, although the poem's authorship is a matter of critical debate. The poem consists of forty-seven seven-line stanzas written in the rhyme royal (with the rhyme scheme...
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x Sonnet 73   Sonnet   Written Work  
Sonnet 73, one of Shakespeare's most famous sonnets, focuses upon the theme of old age, with each of the three quatrains encompassing a metaphor. The sonnet is pensive in tone, and although it is written to a young friend (See: Mr. W.H.), it is...
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x Sonnet 29   Sonnet   Written Work  
Sonnet 29 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It's a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man. Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare the speaker...
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x Sonnet 154       Written Work  
Sonnet 153 and Sonnet 154 are based upon a poem attributed to the Greek poet Marcianus Scholasticus. The poem describes how Cupid has his love brand stolen by nymphs. Sonnet 153 and Sonnet 154 are described as Anacreontic, after the name of a Greek...
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x Sonnet 94       Written Work  
Sonnet 94 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It's a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man. Sonnet 94 is seen as being particularly difficult to...
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x Sonnet 66       Written Work  
Sonnet 66 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It's a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man. Sonnet 66 is a world-weary, desperate list of...
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x Sonnet 60       Written Work  
Sonnet 60 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It's a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man. Sonnet 60 focuses upon the theme of light passing ....
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x Sonnet 93       Written Work  
Sonnet 93 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It's a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man. Contrary to the previous sonnet, Sonnet 92, in which...
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x Sonnet 11       Written Work  
Sonnet 11 is another of Shakespeare's procreation sonnet in which the speaker reasons that even as the young man ages, it is Nature's will that someone of his beauty should procreate and make a copy of himself.
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x Sonnet 64       Written Work  
Sonnet 64 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It's a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man. Shakespeare's sonnets
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x Sonnet 47       Written Work  
Shakespeare's Sonnet 47 is one of the large number of the sequence addressed to a well-born young man. More locally, it is a thematic continuation of "Sonnet 46." My heart and my eyes have reached a mutually beneficial understanding. When my eye...
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x Sonnet 14       Written Work  
Shakespeare's Sonnet 14 is another of his procreation sonnets, this one featuring the speaker declaring that he has the power to predict the future, but he does not do so by reading the stars or anything of the like, and he does not predict...
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x Sonnet 7       Written Work  
Sonnet 7 is a sonnet by William Shakespeare. When the sun rises everyone admires it, even as it reached maturity in the middle of the day, but as it declines people turn their attention elsewhere. The same will happen to you unless you have a child....
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x Sonnet 44       Written Work  
Sonnet 44 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It's a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man. Shakespeare's sonnets
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x Sonnet 16       Written Work  
Shakespeare's Sonnet 16 is another of his procreation sonnets, this one continuing from Sonnet 15. In it, the speaker asks the young man why he does not actively fight against time and age by having a child. Why don't you fight time with weapons...
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x Sonnet 9       Written Work  
Sonnet 9 is another of Shakespeare's procreation sonnets. In it, he reasons that if the young man remains single so that he does not make a widow, he is wrong because if he dies the entire world will in effect be a widow, crying over the fact that...
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x Sonnet 63       Written Work  
Sonnet 63 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man. This sonnet, addressed to the same young man as the...
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x Sonnet 3       Written Work  
Sonnet 3 by William Shakespeare is one of the 17 procreation sonnets urging the man to whom he is writing to his beauty by not having children. The intended recipient of this and other sonnets is a subject of scholarly debate, with some believing it...
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x Sonnet 130       Written Work  
Shakespeare's Sonnet CXXX mocks the conventions of the garish and flowery courtly sonnets in its realistic portrayal of his mistress. It may have been written in response to the sonnets written by Petrarch to his love Laura, which made idealized...
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x Sonnet 146       Written Work  
Sonnet 146, which William Shakespeare addresses to his soul, his "sinful earth", is a pleading appeal to himself to value inner qualities and satisfaction rather than outward appearance. Lines 3-6 question as to why he places so much energy and...
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x Sonnet 8       Written Work  
Sonnet 8 is another procreation sonnet, urging the young man to whom it is addressed to marry and have children. A comparison is made between the harmony of different instruments in an orchestra and a harmonious relationship between a family. The...
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x Sonnet 41       Written Work  
Sonnet 41 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It's a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man. Shakespeare's sonnets
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x Sonnet 51       Written Work  
Sonnet 51 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It's a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man. According to the Norton Anthology, sonnet 51 is...
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x Sonnet 20       Written Work  
Sonnet 20 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is a sonnet belonging to the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love toward a young man. This poem is written about the fair young...
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x Sonnet 48       Written Work  
Sonnet 48 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It's a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man. Shakespeare's sonnets
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x Sonnet 141       Written Work  
A central theme of Sonnet CXLI, by William Shakespeare, is the discrepancy between the poet's physical senses and wits (intellect) on the one hand and his heart on the other. Shakespeare describes a woman whose appearance does not elicit love (his...
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x Sonnet 28       Written Work  
Sonnet 28 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It's a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man.
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x Sonnet 21       Written Work  
Sonnet 21 was written by William Shakespeare. Like Sonnet 130, it addresses the issue of truth in love, as the speaker frankly admits that his lines, while less extravagant than those of other poets, are more truthful. I am unlike the other poet,...
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x Sonnet 43       Written Work  
Shakespeare's Sonnet 43 employs antithesis and paradox to highlight the speaker's yearning for his beloved and sadness in (most likely) his absence, and confusion about the situation described in the previous three sonnets. I see best when my eyes...
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x Sonnet 56       Written Work  
Sonnet 56 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It's a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man. Shakespeare's sonnets
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x Sonnet 30       Written Work  
Shakespeare's Sonnet 30, one of his most famous, is a reflection on sad memories reconciled by the realization of the gift he has in his friend. A phrase from the second line of this sonnet has achieved a worldwide circulation in the literature of...
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x Sonnet 37       Written Work  
Shakespeare's Sonnet 37 returns to a number of themes sounded in the first 25 of the cycle, such as the effects of age and recuperation from age, and the blurred boundaries between lover and beloved. However, the tone is more complex than in the...
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x Sonnet 55       Written Work  
Sonnet 55 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It's a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man. Shakespeare’s Sonnet 55 deals with the idea that the...
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x Sonnet 36       Written Work  
Sonnet 36 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It's a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man or woman. [Category:British poems]]
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x Sonnet 38       Written Work  
Sonnet 38 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It's a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the lyric subject expresses its love towards a young man. Shakespeare's sonnets
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x Sonnet 116       Written Work  
Shakespeare's sonnet 116, first published in 1609. This sonnet is the template by which modern wedding ceremonial rites are written. The poet begins by stating he should not stand in the way of true love. Love cannot be true if it changes for any...
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x Sonnet 5       Written Work  
Sonnet 5 is a sonnet written by William Shakespeare. It repeats the emphasis on human aging, compared with progress of the seasons. The final couplet about "distilled flowers" refers to the extraction of perfume from petals, in which the visible ...
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x Sonnet 6       Written Work  
Sonnet 6 is a sonnet by William Shakespeare, and a continuation of his fifth sonnet. The opening line of this sonnet leads directly from the end of Sonnet 5, as though the two poems were intended as one, itself perhaps a reference to the idea of...
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x Sonnet 23       Written Work  
Shakespeare's Sonnet 23 is one of the sequence addressed to a well-born young man. It is of special interest because of its use of a metaphor drawn from acting, a figure that has led to much attention for what the poem might reveal about Shakespeare...
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x Sonnet 10       Written Work  
Sonnet 10 is another of Shakespeare's procreation sonnets. Shakespeare uses a rather harsh tone to admonish the young man for his refusal to fall in love and have children. The procreation theme is repeated, though for the first time a personal...
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x Sonnet 62       Written Work  
Shakespeare's Sonnet 62 is one of the poems in his sonnet sequence addressed to the young man with whom Shakespeare shares an intimate but tormented connection. This sonnet brings together a number of themes that run through the cycle: the speaker's...
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x Sonnet 50       Written Work  
Sonnet 50 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It's a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man. Shakespeare's sonnets
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x Sonnet 33       Written Work  
Shakespeare's Sonnet 33 is the first of what are sometimes called the estrangement sonnets (33-36): poems concerned with the speaker's response to an unspecified "sensual fault" (35) committed by his beloved. I've seen many beautiful mornings on...
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x Sonnet 42       Written Work  
Sonnet 42 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. Sonnet 42 translation to modern English:. It is not my main ground of complaint that you have her, even though I loved her dearly; that she has you is my...
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x Sonnet 24       Written Work  
Shakespeare's Sonnet 24 treats the commonplace Renaissance conceit connecting heart and eye. Though it relates to other sonnets that explore this theme, Sonnet 24 is considered largely imitative and conventional. Like a painter, my eye has drawn...
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x Sonnet 34       Written Work  
Shakespeare's Sonnet 34 is the second of the sequence, running until Sonnet 36, concerned with an unspecified sin committed against the speaker by a person the speaker loves. Why did you hold out the promise of a beautiful day, causing me to leave...
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x Sonnet 145       Written Work  
The poet's lover seems to be about say she hates him despite his devotion to her. But as soon as she saw how sad he was, she repented, and changed the phrase "I hate" into "I hate not you" This sonnet is unique in the collection, because it is...
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x Sonnet 17       Written Work  
Shakespeare's Sonnet XVII, the last of his procreation sonnets, questions his own descriptions of the young man, believing that in future ages will believe them to be exaggerations if he does not make a copy of himself (a child). Shakespeare insists...
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x Sonnet 57       Written Work  
Sonnet 57 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It's a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man. It represents to many a standard.
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x Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Sonnet 18 1609 Sonnet   Written Work  
Sonnet 18, often alternately titled Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?, is one of the best-known of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. Part of the Fair Youth sequence (which comprises sonnets 1-126 in...
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x Sonnet 25       Written Work  
Shakespeare's Sonnet 25 is among the first of the sequence to deal explicitly with the difference in class between Shakespeare and the subject of the poems. It prefigures the more famous treatment of this difference in Sonnet 29. Let those who have...
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x Sonnet 2       Written Work  
Shakespeare's 2nd sonnet is another procreation sonnet and inquiry into Time's destruction of Beauty, urging the young man of the sonnet to have a child. The theme of necessary procreation found in Sonnet 1 continues into Sonnet 2. The man's beauty...
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x Sonnet 39       Written Work  
Sonnet 39 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It's a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man. How can I celebrate your worth in my poems without...
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x Sonnet 52       Written Work  
Sonnet 52 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It's a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man. Shakespeare's sonnets
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x Sonnet 32       Written Work  
Sonnet 32 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It's a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man.
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x Sonnet 13       Written Work  
Sonnet 13 is the first of Shakespeare's procreation sonnets to contain a declaration of love. Throughout this sonnet are descriptions of the winter and the death in nature that this brings. The winter images captured in Sonnet 5 and Sonnet 6...
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