Poems by William Shakespeare
Shakespeare's Sonnets: 'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed
... must not be shown Unless this general evil they maintain: All men are bad and in their badness reign ...
Troilus and Cressida (excerpts): The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre
... o doubly seconded with will and power,Must make perforce an universal prey,And, last, eat up himself ...
Sonnet 29
... For thy sweet love rememb'red such wealth brings ...
Sonnet 55
... But you shall shine more bright in these contènts ...
Sonnet 71
... From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell: ...
Sonnet LXIV: When I Have Seen by Time's Fell Hand Defac'd
... This thought is as a death, which cannot choose ...
Sonnet XVIII: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
... Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, ...
Sonnet XXV
... Great princes' favourites their fair leaves spread ...
