William Shakespeare
1564 – 1616 · Renaissance · 8 poems
William Shakespeare is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language. His 154 sonnets are masterpieces of love, beauty, time, and mortality.
Poems
Sonnet 18 - Shall I Compare Thee
Shall I compare thee to a summers day? / Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Sonnet 116 - Let Me Not
Let me not to the marriage of true minds / Admit impediments. Love is not love
Sonnet 130 - My Mistress Eyes
My mistress eyes are nothing like the sun; / Coral is far more red than her lips red;
Sonnet 29 - When in Disgrace
When, in disgrace with fortune and mens eyes, / I all alone beweep my outcast state,
Sonnet 73 - That Time of Year
That time of year thou mayst in me behold / When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
Sonnet 55 - Not Marble Nor the Gilded Monuments
Not marble, nor the gilded monuments / Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme;
Sonnet 1 - From Fairest Creatures
From fairest creatures we desire increase, / That thereby beautys rose might never die,
Sonnet 147 - My Love Is as a Fever
My love is as a fever, longing still / For that which longer nurseth the disease,