«The little Love-god lying once asleep Laid by his side his heart-inflaming brand». Sonnet 154 tells a similar […]
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«In loving thee thou know’st I am forsworn, But thou art twice forsworn, to me love swearing». The […]
«O, from what power hast thou this powerful might With insufficiency my heart to sway?». Using a more […]
«Canst thou, O cruel! say I love thee not, When I against myself with thee partake?». Sonnet 149 […]
«My love is as a fever, longing still For that which longer nurseth the disease». The final sonnets […]
«Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth, [Thrall to] these rebel powers that thee array». The poet […]
«Two loves I have of comfort and despair, Which like two spirits do suggest me still». Sonnet 144 […]
«Lo! as a careful housewife runs to catch One of her feather’d creatures broke away». The image of […]
Shakespeare’s Sonnets are some of the most fascinating and influential poems written in English. First published in 1609, […]