Shakespeare's Sonnets
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From fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beauty’s rose might never die, But as the riper should by time decease, His tender heir might bear his memory: But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, Feed’st thy light’s flame with self-substantial fuel, Making a famine where abundance lies, Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel: Thou that art now the world’s fresh ornament, And only herald to the…
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- AuthorWilliam Shakespeare
- SourceProject Gutenberg #1041
- Length17,517 words · 1h 10m of reading
- Chapters150
- DictionaryNot yet generated
- CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
- Source checked2026-08-28
Contents
150 chapters
Recovered from the original source text, so you can open the book at any of them.
- 01THE SONNETS
- 02II
- 03III
- 04IV
- 05VI
- 06VII
- 07VIII
- 08IX
- 09XI
- 10XII
- 11XIII
- 12XIV
- 13XV
- 14XVI
- 15XVII
- 16XVIII
- 17XIX
- 18XX
- 19XXI
- 20XXII
- 21XXIII
- 22XXIV
- 23XXV
- 24XXVI
- 25XXVII
- 26XXVIII
- 27XXIX
- 28XXX
- 29XXXI
- 30XXXII
- 31XXXIII
- 32XXXIV
- 33XXXV
- 34XXXVI
- 35XXXVII
- 36XXXVIII
- 37XXXIX
- 38XL
- 39XLI
- 40XLII
- 41XLIII
- 42XLIV
- 43XLV
- 44XLVI
- 45XLVII
- 46XLVIII
- 47XLIX
- 48LI
- 49LII
- 50LIII
- 51LIV
- 52LV
- 53LVI
- 54LVII
- 55LVIII
- 56LIX
- 57LX
- 58LXI
- 59LXII
- 60LXIII
- 61LXIV
- 62LXV
- 63LXVI
- 64LXVII
- 65LXVIII
- 66LXIX
- 67LXX
- 68LXXI
- 69LXXII
- 70LXXIII
- 71LXXIV
- 72LXXV
- 73LXXVI
- 74LXXVII
- 75LXXVIII
- 76LXXIX
- 77LXXX
- 78LXXXI
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- 85LXXXVIII
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- 87XC
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- 146CL
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