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William Shakespeare's Sonnets 18, 23, 29, 40, 55, 116 & 130

These are the most well known sonnets of Shakespeare

Sonnet 18 Shall ! "ompare thee to a s#mmer's $a%& Tho# art more lo'el% an$ more temperate( )o#*h win$s $o shake the $arlin* +#$s of ,a%, -n$ s#mmer's lease hath all too short a $ate( Sometime too hot the e%e of hea'en shines, -n$ often is his *ol$ "omple.ion $imme$, -n$ e'er% fair from fair sometime $e"lines, /% "han"e, or nat#re's "han*in* "o#rse #ntrimme$( /#t th% eternal s#mmer shall not fa$e, 0or lose possession of that fair tho# ow'st, 0or shall $eath +ra* tho# wan$'rest in his sha$e, When in eternal lines to time tho# *row'st, So lon* as men "an +reathe or e%es "an see, So lon* li'es this, an$ this *i'es life to thee Sonnet 23 -s an #nperfe"t a"tor on the sta*e, Who with his fear is p#t +esi$e his part, 1r some fier"e thin* replete with too m#"h ra*e, Whose stren*th's a+#n$an"e weakens his own heart2 So ! for fear of tr#st, for*et to sa%, The perfe"t "eremon% of lo'e's rite, -n$ in mine own lo'e's stren*th seem to $e"a%, 1'er"har*e$ with +#rthen of mine own lo'e's mi*ht( 1 let m% looks +e then the elo3#en"e, -n$ $#m+ presa*ers of m% speakin* +reast, Who plea$ for lo'e, an$ look for re"ompense, ,ore than that ton*#e that more hath more e.presse$ 1 learn to rea$ what silent lo'e hath writ, To hear with e%es +elon*s to lo'e's fine wit Sonnet 29 When in $is*ra"e with 4ort#ne an$ men's e%es, ! all alone +eweep m% o#t"ast state, -n$ tro#+le $eaf hea'en with m% +ootless "ries, -n$ look #pon m% self an$ "#rse m% fate, Wishin* me like to one more ri"h in hope, 4eat#re$ like him, like him with frien$s possesse$, 5esirin* this man's art, an$ that man's s"ope, With what ! most en6o% "ontente$ least, 7et in these tho#*hts m% self almost $espisin*, 8apl% ! think on thee, an$ then m% state, 9:ike to the lark at +reak of $a% arisin* 4rom s#llen earth; sin*s h%mns at hea'en's *ate, 4or th% sweet lo'e remem+ere$ s#"h wealth +rin*s, That then ! s"orn to "han*e m% state with kin*s Sonnet 40 Take all m% lo'es, m% lo'e, %ea take them all, What hast tho# then more than tho# ha$st +efore& 0o lo'e, m% lo'e, that tho# ma%st tr#e lo'e "all, -ll mine was thine, +efore tho# ha$st this more( Then if for m% lo'e, tho# m% lo'e re"ei'est,

! "annot +lame thee, for m% lo'e tho# #sest, /#t %et +e +lame$, if tho# th% self $e"ei'est /% wilf#l taste of what th% self ref#sest ! $o for*i'e th% ro++er% *entle thief -ltho#*h tho# steal thee all m% po'ert%( -n$ %et lo'e knows it is a *reater *rief To +ear lo'e's wron*, than hate's known in6#r% :as"i'io#s *ra"e, in whom all ill well shows, <ill me with spites %et we m#st not +e foes Sonnet 55 0ot mar+le, nor the *il$e$ mon#ments 1f prin"es shall o#tli'e this powerf#l rh%me, /#t %o# shall shine more +ri*ht in these "ontents Than #nswept stone, +esmeare$ with sl#ttish time When wastef#l war shall stat#es o'ert#rn, -n$ +roils root o#t the work of masonr%, 0or ,ars his swor$, nor war's 3#i"k fire shall +#rn( The li'in* re"or$ of %o#r memor% '=ainst $eath, an$ all>o+li'io#s enmit% Shall %o# pa"e forth, %o#r praise shall still fin$ room, ?'en in the e%es of all posterit% That wear this worl$ o#t to the en$in* $oom So till the 6#$*ment that %o#r self arise, 7o# li'e in this, an$ $well in lo'ers' e%es Sonnet 116 :et me not to the marria*e of tr#e min$s -$mit impe$iments, lo'e is not lo'e Whi"h alters when it alteration fin$s, 1r +en$s with the remo'er to remo'e 1 no, it is an e'er>fi.e$ mark That looks on tempests an$ is ne'er shaken2 !t is the star to e'er% wan$'rin* +ark, Whose worth's #nknown, altho#*h his hei*ht +e taken :o'e's not Time's fool, tho#*h ros% lips an$ "heeks Within his +en$in* si"kle's "ompass "ome, :o'e alters not with his +rief ho#rs an$ weeks, /#t +ears it o#t e'en to the e$*e of $oom( !f this +e error an$ #pon me pro'e$, ! ne'er writ, nor no man e'er lo'e$ Sonnet 130 ,% mistress' e%es are nothin* like the s#n, @oral is far more re$, than her lips re$, !f snow +e white, wh% then her +reasts are $#n( !f hairs +e wires, +la"k wires *row on her hea$( ! ha'e seen roses $amaske$, re$ an$ white, /#t no s#"h roses see ! in her "heeks, -n$ in some perf#mes is there more $eli*ht, Than in the +reath that from m% mistress reeks ! lo'e to hear her speak, %et well ! know, That m#si" hath a far more pleasin* so#n$( ! *rant ! ne'er saw a *o$$ess *o, ,% mistress when she walks trea$s on the *ro#n$ -n$ %et +% hea'en ! think m% lo'e as rare, -s an% she +elie$ with false "ompare 18 A BC!!!2 23 A BB!!!2 29 A BB!B2 40 A B:2 55 A :C2 116 A @BC!2 130 A @BBB

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