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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare

Sonnet XVIII: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Sonnet XVIII: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough wind…

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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare

Sonnet XXI

Sonnet XXI

So is it not with me as with that Muse
Stirr'd by a painted beauty to his verse,
Who heaven itself for ornament doth use
And e…

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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare

Sonnet XVI

Sonnet XVI

But wherefore do not you a mightier way
Make war upon this bloody tyrant, Time?
And fortify yourself in your decay
With means …

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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare

Sonnet XLVIII

Sonnet XLVIII

How careful was I, when I took my way,
Each trifle under truest bars to thrust,
That to my use it might unused stay
From ha…

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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare

Sonnet XLIX

Sonnet XLIX

Against that time, if ever that time come,
When I shall see thee frown on my defects,
When as thy love hath cast his utmost sum,

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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare

Sonnet XLVI

Sonnet XLVI

Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war
How to divide the conquest of thy sight;
Mine eye my heart thy picture's sight would bar,

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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare

Sonnet XLI

Sonnet XLI

Those petty wrongs that liberty commits,
When I am sometime absent from thy heart,
Thy beauty and thy years full well befits,

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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare

Sonnet XLIII

Sonnet XLIII

When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see,
For all the day they view things unrespected;
But when I sleep, in dreams they look on…

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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare

Sonnet XIX: Devouring Time, Blunt Thou the Lion's Paws

Sonnet XIX: Devouring Time, Blunt Thou the Lion's Paws

Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws,
And make the earth devour her own sweet brood;

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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare

Sonnet XIII

Sonnet XIII

O, that you were yourself! but, love, you are
No longer yours than you yourself here live:
Against this coming end you should prepare…

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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare

Sonnet XCVII

Sonnet XCVII

How like a winter hath my absence been
From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!
What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen…

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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare

Sonnet XI

Sonnet XI

As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou growest
In one of thine, from that which thou departest;
And that fresh blood which youngly th…

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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare

Sonnet XCV

Sonnet XCV

How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame
Which, like a canker in the fragrant rose,
Doth spot the beauty of thy budding name!

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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare

Sonnet XCIV: They That Have Power to Hurt and Will Do None

Sonnet XCIV: They That Have Power to Hurt and Will Do None

They that have power to hurt and will do none,
That do not do the thing they most do show,

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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare

Sonnet XCII

Sonnet XCII

But do thy worst to steal thyself away,
For term of life thou art assured mine,
And life no longer than thy love will stay,
F…

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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare

Sonnet XC

Sonnet XC

Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now;
Now, while the world is bent my deeds to cross,
Join with the spite of fortune, make me bow,…

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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare

Sonnet VI

Sonnet VI

Then let not winter's ragged hand deface
In thee thy summer, ere thou be distill'd:
Make sweet some vial; treasure thou some place

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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare

Sonnet VIII

Sonnet VIII

Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?
Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy.
Why lovest thou that which thou receive…

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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare

Sonnet LXXXVI

Sonnet LXXXVI

Was it the proud full sail of his great verse,
Bound for the prize of all too precious you,
That did my ripe thoughts in my brain i…

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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare

Sonnet LXXXVIII

Sonnet LXXXVIII

When thou shalt be disposed to set me light,
And place my merit in the eye of scorn,
Upon thy side against myself I'll fight,

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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare

Sonnet LXXXIX

Sonnet LXXXIX

Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault,
And I will comment upon that offence;
Speak of my lameness, and I straight will halt…

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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare

Sonnet LXXXIII

Sonnet LXXXIII

I never saw that you did painting need
And therefore to your fair no painting set;
I found, or thought I found, you did exceed

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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare

Sonnet LXXVIII

Sonnet LXXVIII

So oft have I invoked thee for my Muse
And found such fair assistance in my verse
As every alien pen hath got my use
And u…

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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare

Sonnet LXXXI

Sonnet LXXXI

Or I shall live your epitaph to make,
Or you survive when I in earth am rotten;
From hence your memory death cannot take,
Al…

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