Poems by William Shakespeare
Shakespeare's Sonnets: Accuse me thus, that I have scanted all
... n your wakened hate Since my appeal says I did strive to prove The constancy and virtue of your love ...
Shakespeare's Sonnets: Against my love shall be as I am now
... age's cruel knife,That he shall never cut from memoryMy sweet love's beauty, though my lover's life ...
All's Well that Ends Well (excerpts): Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie
... e be strange attempts to thoseThat weigh their pains in sense and do supposeWhat hath been cannot be ...
Hamlet (excerpts): To be or not to be, that is the question
... prises of great pith and momentWith this regard their currents turn away,And lose the name of action ...
Macbeth (excerpts): Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
... walking shadow, a poor playerThat struts and frets his hour upon the stageAnd then is heard no more ...
The Merchant of Venice (excerpts): How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank
... ons of his spirit are as dull as night And his affections dark as Erebus: Let no such man be trusted ...
A Midsummer Night's Dream (excerpts): Lovers and mad men have such seething brains
... th strong imaginationThat if it would but apprehend some joy,It comprehends some bringer of that joy ...
O Mistres Mine Where are you Roming?
... In delay there lies no plentie,Then come kisse me sweet and twentie: Youths a stuffe will not endure ...
Richard II (excerpts): I have been studying how to compare
... ut my timeRuns posting on in Bolingbroke's proud joy,While I stand fooling here, his jack o'th'clock ...
Richard II (excerpts): Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs
... r you have mistook me all this while:I live with bread like you, feel want,Taste grief, need friends ...
Richard II (excerpts): Oh, who can hold a fire in his hand
... Fell sorrow's tooth doth never rankle moreThan when it bites but lanceth not the sore ...
Richard II (excerpts): This royal throne of kings, this sceptered isle
... nvious siegeOf watery Neptune, is now bound in with shame,With inky blots and rotten parchment bonds ...
Romeo and Juliet (excerpts): Care keeps his watch in every old man’s eye
... But where unbruised youth with unstuff'd brainDoth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign ...
Romeo and Juliet (excerpts): O then I see Queen Mab hath been with you
... backs,That presses them and learns them first to bear,Making them women of good carriage:This is she ...
Romeo and Juliet (excerpts): The earth that’s Nature’s mother is her tomb
... For this, being smelt, with that part cheers each part,Being tasted, slays all senses with the heart ...
