Poems by William Shakespeare
Sweet-and-Twenty
... O, stay and hear! your true love 's coming, ...
That time of year thou mayst in me behold (Sonnet 73)
... This thou perceiv'st, which makes thy love more strong, ...
The Phoenix and the Turtle
... To eternity doth rest,Leaving no posterity:-- ...
The Quality of Mercy
... it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown ...
Three Songs
... All. Ding, dong, bell!--from The Merchant of Venice ...
When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes (Sonnet 29)
... Featured like him, like him with friends possessed, ...
When that I was and a little tiny boy
... . 'Gainst knaves and thieves men shut their gate ...
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought (Sonnet 30)
... For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, ...
Winter
... Tu-who; Tu-whit, tu-who: a merry note, ...
Sonnet 81: "Or shall I live your epitaph to make,..."
... Where breath most breathes, even in the mouths of men ...
The Dark Lady Sonnets (127 - 154)
... ' CXXXVII Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes, ...
Sonnet 143: "Lo, as a careful housewife runs to catch..."
... So runn'st thou after that which flies from thee, ...
The Rape Of Lucrece
... Lucrece, in this lamentable plight, hastily dispatcheth messengers, one to Rome for her ...
Sonnet 64: "When I have seen by Time's fell hand defac'd..."
... This thought is as a death, which cannot choose ...
The Passionate Pilgrim
... Thy eye Jove's lightning seems, thy voice his dreadful thunder, ...
