Shakespeare's Sonnets

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First edition of Shakespeare's SonnetsFirst edition

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Shakespeare's Sonnets
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Author
William Shakespeare, England

First publication
1609

Form
Poems

Writing language
English

Length
154 poems

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• Literature

• Poetry Collections

• British Literature

Related pages ▽ Related pages △

• William Shakespeare

• Hamlet

• Henry IV, Part 1

• Julius Caesar

• King Lear

• Macbeth

• The Merchant of Venice

• Othello

• Romeo and Juliet

• The Tempest

Notable lines

From fairest creatures we desire increase,
That thereby beauty's rose might never die....

— First lines

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

 

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state....

 

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past....

 

When in the chronicle of wasted time...

 

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments.

 

When my love swears that she is made of truth,
I do believe her, though I know she lies....

 

 

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