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Poems by William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) is represented here by 162 public-domain poems. The collection associates this work with Renaissance and England.

1564–1616RenaissanceEngland162 poems

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  1. Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind20 lines · nature · joy · short lyric
  2. Sonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds14 lines · love · sonnet · short lyric
  3. Sonnet 130: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun14 lines · love · nature · sonnet
  4. Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?14 lines · nature · spiritual · time
  5. Sonnet 29: When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes14 lines · love · justice · sonnet
  6. Sonnet 73: That time of year thou mayst in me behold14 lines · love · nature · time
  7. A Lover's Complaint331 lines · love · grief · nature
  8. Orpheus with his Lute Made Trees12 lines · love · nature · short lyric
  9. Sonnet 1: From fairest creatures we desire increase14 lines · love · death · nature
  10. Sonnet 10: For shame! deny that thou bear'st love to any14 lines · love · sonnet · short lyric
  11. Sonnet 100: Where art thou Muse that thou forget'st so long14 lines · love · joy · time
  12. Sonnet 101: O truant Muse what shall be thy amends14 lines · love · mystical · sonnet
  13. Sonnet 102: My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming14 lines · love · nature · joy
  14. Sonnet 103: Alack! what poverty my Muse brings forth14 lines · sonnet · short lyric · renaissance
  15. Sonnet 104: To me, fair friend, you never can be old14 lines · love · nature · solitude
  16. Sonnet 105: Let not my love be call'd idolatry14 lines · love · solitude · sonnet
  17. Sonnet 106: When in the chronicle of wasted time14 lines · love · time · sonnet
  18. Sonnet 107: Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul14 lines · love · death · spiritual
  19. Sonnet 108: What's in the brain, that ink may character14 lines · love · death · spiritual
  20. Sonnet 109: O! never say that I was false of heart14 lines · love · time · voyage
  21. Sonnet 11: As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou grow'st14 lines · time · sonnet · short lyric
  22. Sonnet 110: Alas! 'tis true, I have gone here and there14 lines · love · spiritual · sonnet
  23. Sonnet 111: O! for my sake do you with Fortune chide14 lines · sonnet · short lyric · renaissance
  24. Sonnet 112: Your love and pity doth the impression fill14 lines · love · sonnet · short lyric
  25. Sonnet 113: Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind14 lines · love · nature · time
  26. Sonnet 114: Or whether doth my mind, being crown'd with you14 lines · love · sonnet · short lyric
  27. Sonnet 115: Those lines that I before have writ do lie14 lines · love · sonnet · short lyric
  28. Sonnet 117: Accuse me thus: that I have scanted all14 lines · love · time · sonnet
  29. Sonnet 118: Like as, to make our appetite more keen14 lines · sonnet · short lyric · renaissance
  30. Sonnet 119: What potions have I drunk of Siren tears14 lines · love · grief · solitude
  31. Sonnet 12: When I do count the clock that tells the time14 lines · love · time · sonnet
  32. Sonnet 120: That you were once unkind befriends me now14 lines · grief · time · justice
  33. Sonnet 121: 'Tis better to be vile than vile esteem'd14 lines · sonnet · short lyric · renaissance
  34. Sonnet 122: Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain14 lines · love · sonnet · short lyric
  35. Sonnet 123: No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change14 lines · time · sonnet · short lyric
  36. Sonnet 124: If my dear love were but the child of state14 lines · love · nature · time
  37. Sonnet 125: Were't aught to me I bore the canopy14 lines · love · sonnet · short lyric
  38. Sonnet 126: O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power12 lines · solitude · time · sonnet
  39. Sonnet 127: In the old age black was not counted fair14 lines · love · time · sonnet
  40. Sonnet 128: How oft when thou, my music, music play'st14 lines · love · nature · sonnet
  41. Sonnet 129: The expense of spirit in a waste of shame14 lines · joy · time · imagination
  42. Sonnet 13: O! that you were your self; but, love you are14 lines · love · sonnet · short lyric
  43. Sonnet 131: Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art14 lines · love · sonnet · short lyric
  44. Sonnet 132: Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me14 lines · love · grief · nature
  45. Sonnet 133: Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan14 lines · love · justice · sonnet
  46. Sonnet 134: So, now I have confess'd that he is thine14 lines · sonnet · short lyric · renaissance
  47. Sonnet 135: Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy 'Will,'14 lines · solitude · sonnet · short lyric
  48. Sonnet 136: If thy soul check thee that I come so near14 lines · love · spiritual · sonnet
  49. Sonnet 137: Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes14 lines · love · sonnet · short lyric
  50. Sonnet 138: When my love swears that she is made of truth14 lines · love · mystical · time
  51. Sonnet 139: O! call not me to justify the wrong14 lines · love · sonnet · short lyric
  52. Sonnet 14: Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck14 lines · nature · sonnet · short lyric
  53. Sonnet 140: Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press14 lines · love · imagination · sonnet
  54. Sonnet 141: In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes14 lines · love · spiritual · sonnet
  55. Sonnet 142: Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate14 lines · love · sonnet · short lyric
  56. Sonnet 143: Lo, as a careful housewife runs to catch14 lines · sonnet · short lyric · renaissance
  57. Sonnet 144: Two loves I have of comfort and despair14 lines · love · spiritual · sonnet
  58. Sonnet 145: Those lips that Love's own hand did make14 lines · love · time · sonnet
  59. Sonnet 146: Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth14 lines · death · spiritual · justice
  60. Sonnet 147: My love is as a fever longing still14 lines · love · solitude · time
  61. Sonnet 148: O me! what eyes hath Love put in my head14 lines · love · grief · sonnet
  62. Sonnet 149: Canst thou, O cruel! say I love thee not14 lines · love · sonnet · short lyric
  63. Sonnet 15: When I consider every thing that grows14 lines · nature · solitude · time
  64. Sonnet 150: O! from what power hast thou this powerful might14 lines · love · sonnet · short lyric
  65. Sonnet 151: Love is too young to know what conscience is14 lines · love · sonnet · short lyric
  66. Sonnet 152: In loving thee thou know'st I am forsworn14 lines · love · spiritual · mystical
  67. Sonnet 153: Cupid laid by his brand and fell asleep14 lines · sonnet · short lyric · renaissance
  68. Sonnet 154: The little Love-god lying once asleep14 lines · love · sonnet · short lyric
  69. Sonnet 16: But wherefore do not you a mightier way14 lines · time · justice · sonnet
  70. Sonnet 17: Who will believe my verse in time to come14 lines · time · sonnet · short lyric
  71. Sonnet 19: Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws14 lines · love · time · sonnet
  72. Sonnet 2: When forty winters shall besiege thy brow14 lines · love · nature · sonnet
  73. Sonnet 20: A woman's face with nature's own hand painted14 lines · love · sonnet · short lyric
  74. Sonnet 21: So is it not with me as with that Muse14 lines · love · nature · sonnet
  75. Sonnet 22: My glass shall not persuade me I am old14 lines · love · sonnet · short lyric
  76. Sonnet 23: As an unperfect actor on the stage14 lines · love · sonnet · short lyric
  77. Sonnet 24: Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stell'd14 lines · love · sonnet · short lyric
  78. Sonnet 25: Let those who are in favour with their stars14 lines · nature · sonnet · short lyric
  79. Sonnet 26: Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage14 lines · love · spiritual · sonnet
  80. Sonnet 27: Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed14 lines · solitude · time · sonnet
  81. Sonnet 28: How can I then return in happy plight14 lines · solitude · time · voyage
  82. Sonnet 3: Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest14 lines · death · time · sonnet
  83. Sonnet 30: When to the sessions of sweet silent thought14 lines · love · grief · time
  84. Sonnet 31: Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts14 lines · love · death · solitude
  85. Sonnet 32: If thou survive my well-contented day14 lines · love · death · time
  86. Sonnet 33: Full many a glorious morning have I seen14 lines · love · nature · sonnet
  87. Sonnet 34: Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day14 lines · grief · time · sonnet
  88. Sonnet 35: No more be griev'd at that which thou hast done14 lines · love · nature · sonnet
  89. Sonnet 36: Let me confess that we two must be twain14 lines · love · sonnet · short lyric
  90. Sonnet 37: As a decrepit father takes delight14 lines · love · joy · sonnet
  91. Sonnet 38: How can my muse want subject to invent14 lines · time · sonnet · short lyric
  92. Sonnet 39: O! how thy worth with manners may I sing14 lines · love · joy · time
  93. Sonnet 4: Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend14 lines · love · sonnet · short lyric
  94. Sonnet 40: Take all my loves, my love, yea take them all14 lines · love · sonnet · short lyric
  95. Sonnet 41: Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits14 lines · love · sonnet · short lyric
  96. Sonnet 42: That thou hast her it is not all my grief14 lines · love · grief · sonnet
  97. Sonnet 43: When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see14 lines · solitude · time · imagination
  98. Sonnet 44: If the dull substance of my flesh were thought14 lines · sonnet · short lyric · renaissance
  99. Sonnet 45: The other two, slight air, and purging fire14 lines · love · grief · joy
  100. Sonnet 46: Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war14 lines · love · justice · sonnet
  101. Sonnet 47: Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took14 lines · love · solitude · sonnet
  102. Sonnet 48: How careful was I when I took my way14 lines · sonnet · short lyric · renaissance
  103. Sonnet 49: Against that time, if ever that time come14 lines · love · time · justice
  104. Sonnet 5: Those hours, that with gentle work did frame14 lines · love · nature · time
  105. Sonnet 50: How heavy do I journey on the way14 lines · voyage · sonnet · short lyric
  106. Sonnet 51: Thus can my love excuse the slow offence14 lines · love · sonnet · short lyric
  107. Sonnet 52: So am I as the rich, whose blessed key14 lines · time · justice · sonnet
  108. Sonnet 53: What is your substance, whereof are you made14 lines · love · solitude · sonnet
  109. Sonnet 54: O! how much more doth beauty beauteous seem14 lines · love · death · nature
  110. Sonnet 55: Not marble, nor the gilded monuments14 lines · time · sonnet · short lyric
  111. Sonnet 56: Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not said14 lines · love · voyage · sonnet
  112. Sonnet 57: Being your slave what should I do but tend14 lines · love · time · justice
  113. Sonnet 58: That god forbid, that made me first your slave14 lines · spiritual · joy · time
  114. Sonnet 59: If there be nothing new, but that which is14 lines · sonnet · short lyric · renaissance
  115. Sonnet 6: Then let not winter's ragged hand deface14 lines · time · sonnet · short lyric
  116. Sonnet 60: Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore14 lines · mystical · time · voyage
  117. Sonnet 61: Is it thy will, thy image should keep open14 lines · love · solitude · time
  118. Sonnet 62: Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye14 lines · love · time · sonnet
  119. Sonnet 63: Against my love shall be as I am now14 lines · love · solitude · time
  120. Sonnet 64: When I have seen by Time's fell hand defac'd14 lines · grief · time · sonnet
  121. Sonnet 65: Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea14 lines · love · nature · time
  122. Sonnet 66: Tired with all these, for restful death I cry14 lines · death · sonnet · short lyric
  123. Sonnet 67: Ah! wherefore with infection should he live14 lines · nature · sonnet · short lyric
  124. Sonnet 68: Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn14 lines · love · death · nature
  125. Sonnet 69: Those parts of thee that the world's eye doth view14 lines · love · sonnet · short lyric
  126. Sonnet 7: Lo! in the orient when the gracious light14 lines · mystical · time · sonnet
  127. Sonnet 70: That thou art blam'd shall not be thy defect14 lines · love · time · sonnet
  128. Sonnet 71: No longer mourn for me when I am dead14 lines · love · death · sonnet
  129. Sonnet 72: O! lest the world should task you to recite14 lines · love · sonnet · short lyric
  130. Sonnet 74: But be contented: when that fell arrest14 lines · sonnet · short lyric · renaissance
  131. Sonnet 75: So are you to my thoughts as food to life14 lines · joy · time · sonnet
  132. Sonnet 76: Why is my verse so barren of new pride14 lines · love · solitude · sonnet
  133. Sonnet 77: Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear14 lines · time · sonnet · short lyric
  134. Sonnet 78: So oft have I invoked thee for my Muse14 lines · sonnet · short lyric · renaissance
  135. Sonnet 79: Whilst I alone did call upon thy aid14 lines · love · grief · solitude
  136. Sonnet 8: Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?14 lines · love · joy · sonnet
  137. Sonnet 80: O! how I faint when I of you do write14 lines · sonnet · short lyric · renaissance
  138. Sonnet 81: Or I shall live your epitaph to make14 lines · death · sonnet · short lyric
  139. Sonnet 82: I grant thou wert not married to my Muse14 lines · time · sonnet · short lyric
  140. Sonnet 83: I never saw that you did painting need14 lines · sonnet · short lyric · renaissance
  141. Sonnet 84: Who is it that says most, which can say more14 lines · sonnet · short lyric · renaissance
  142. Sonnet 85: My tongue-tied Muse in manners holds her still14 lines · solitude · sonnet · short lyric
  143. Sonnet 86: Was it the proud full sail of his great verse14 lines · death · solitude · voyage
  144. Sonnet 87: Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing14 lines · love · grief · sonnet
  145. Sonnet 88: When thou shalt be dispos'd to set me light14 lines · mystical · sonnet · short lyric
  146. Sonnet 89: Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault14 lines · love · sonnet · short lyric
  147. Sonnet 9: Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye14 lines · solitude · sonnet · short lyric
  148. Sonnet 90: Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now14 lines · grief · sonnet · short lyric
  149. Sonnet 91: Some glory in their birth, some in their skill14 lines · joy · sonnet · short lyric
  150. Sonnet 92: But do thy worst to steal thyself away14 lines · love · sonnet · short lyric
  151. Sonnet 93: So shall I live, supposing thou art true14 lines · love · sonnet · short lyric
  152. Sonnet 94: They that have power to hurt, and will do none14 lines · nature · sonnet · short lyric
  153. Sonnet 95: How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame14 lines · love · sonnet · short lyric
  154. Sonnet 96: Some say thy fault is youth, some wantonness14 lines · sonnet · short lyric · renaissance
  155. Sonnet 97: How like a winter hath my absence been14 lines · nature · joy · time
  156. Sonnet 98: From you have I been absent in the spring14 lines · love · nature · solitude
  157. Sonnet 99: The forward violet thus did I chide15 lines · love · nature · sonnet
  158. Spring18 lines · nature · joy · short lyric
  159. Spring and Winter i18 lines · nature · joy · short lyric
  160. Spring and Winter ii18 lines · nature · joy · short lyric
  161. Under the Greenwood Tree16 lines · love · nature · short lyric
  162. Winter18 lines · nature · joy · short lyric