William Shakespeare's Poetry, by popularity

• Silvia

  Who is Silvia? What is she?
      That all our swains commend her?

  16 lines
• Sonnet 118: "Like as, to make our appetite more keen,..."

  Like as, to make our appetite more keen,
  With eager compounds we our palate urge;

  14 lines
• Sonnet 125: "Were't aught to me I bore the canopy,..."

  Were't aught to me I bore the canopy,
  With my extern the outward honouring,

  14 lines
• Sonnet 117: "Accuse me thus: that I have scanted all,..."

  Accuse me thus: that I have scanted all,
  Wherein I should your great deserts repay,

  14 lines
• Sonnet 136: "If thy soul check thee that I come so near,..."

  If thy soul check thee that I come so near,
  Swear to thy blind soul that I was thy Will,

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• Sonnet 85: "My tongue-tied Muse in manners holds her still,..."

  My tongue-tied Muse in manners holds her still,
  While comments of your praise richly compiled,

  14 lines
• Sonnet 86: "Was it the proud full sail of his great verse,"

  Was it the proud full sail of his great verse,
  Bound for the prize of all too precious you,

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• Sonnet 79: "Whilst I alone did call upon thy aid,..."

  Whilst I alone did call upon thy aid,
  My verse alone had all thy gentle grace;

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• Sonnet 81: "Or shall I live your epitaph to make,..."

  Or I shall live your epitaph to make,
  Or you survive when I in earth am rotten,

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• Sonnet 139: "O! call not me to justify the wrong..."

  O! call not me to justify the wrong
  That thy unkindness lays upon my heart;

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• Sonnet 149: "Canst thou, O cruel! say I love thee not,..."

  Canst thou, O cruel! say I love thee not,
  When I against myself with thee partake?

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• Sonnet 76: "Why is my verse so barren of new pride,..."

  Why is my verse so barren of new pride,
  So far from variation or quick change?

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• Sonnet 82: "I grant thou wert not married to my Muse,..."

  I grant thou wert not married to my Muse,
  And therefore mayst without attaint o'erlook

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• Sonnet 93: "So shall I live, supposing thou art true,..."

  So shall I live, supposing thou art true,
  Like a deceived husband; so love's face

  14 lines
• Sonnets to the Sundry Notes of Music

  IT was a lording's daughter, the fairest one of three,
  That liked of her master as well as well might be,

  246 lines
• Sonnet 77: "Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear,..."

  Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear,
  Thy dial how thy precious minutes waste;

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• Sonnet 78: "So oft have I invoked thee for my Muse,..."

  So oft have I invoked thee for my Muse,
  And found such fair assistance in my verse

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• Sonnet 97: "How like a winter hath my absence been..."

  How like a winter hath my absence been
  From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!

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• Sonnet 99: "The forward violet thus did I chide:..."

  The forward violet thus did I chide:
  Sweet thief, whence didst thou steal thy sweet that smells,

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• Sonnet 124: "If my dear love were but the child of state,..."

  If my dear love were but the child of state,
  It might for Fortune's bastard be unfathered,

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• Sonnet 131: "Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art,..."

  Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art,
  As those whose beauties proudly make them cruel;

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• Sonnet 133: "Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan..."

  Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan
  For that deep wound it gives my friend and me!

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• Sonnet 88: "When thou shalt be dispos'd to set me light,..."

  When thou shalt be dispos'd to set me light,
  And place my merit in the eye of scorn,

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• Sonnet 96: "Some say thy fault is youth, some wantonness;..."

  Some say thy fault is youth, some wantonness;
  Some say thy grace is youth and gentle sport;

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• Sonnet 114: "Or whether doth my mind, being crowned with you,..."

  Or whether doth my mind, being crowned with you,
  Drink up the monarch's plague, this flattery?

  14 lines
• Sonnet 122: "Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain..."

  Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain
  Full charactered with lasting memory,

  14 lines
• St. Crispin’s Day Speech: from Henry V

  WESTMORELAND. O that we now had here
  But one ten thousand of those men in England

  53 lines
• Sonnet 92: "But do thy worst to steal thyself away,..."

  But do thy worst to steal thyself away,
  For term of life thou art assured mine;

  14 lines
• Sonnet 121: "'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed,..."

  'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed,
  When not to be receives reproach of being;

  14 lines
• Sonnet 128: "How oft when thou, my music, music play'st,..."

  How oft when thou, my music, music play'st,
  Upon that blessed wood whose motion sounds

  14 lines

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