The poetry of William Shakespeare

Let's learn a few of Shakespeare's sonnets together!

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Sonnet 18

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s ?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough do shake the darling buds of ,
And summer’s lease hath all too a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of shines,
And often is his complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in lines to time thou grow’st:
So long as men can breathe or can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
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Sonnet 102

My is strengthened, though more in seeming;
I love not less, though less the show appear;
That love is merchandized, whose esteeming,
The owner’s doth publish every where.
Our love was , and then but in the ,
When I was wont to greet it with my lays;
As Philomel in summer’s doth sing,
And stops his pipe in growth of riper days:
Not that the is less pleasant now
Than when her mournful hymns did hush the ,
But that wild music burthens every bough,
And sweets grown common lose their dear delight.
Therefore like her, I sometime hold my tongue:
Because I would not dull you with my .

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