By John Milton What needs my Shakespear for his honour’d Bones,The labour of an age in piled Stones,Or that his hallow’d reliques should be hidUnder …
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Sonnet 5: Those Hours, That With Gentle Work Did Frame
By William Shakespeare Those hours, that with gentle work did frameThe lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell,Will play the tyrants to the very sameAnd …
Sonnet 4: Unthrifty Loveliness, Why Dost Thou Spend
By William Shakespeare Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spendUpon thy self thy beauty’s legacy?Nature’s bequest gives nothing, but doth lend,And being frank she lends to …
Sonnet 3: Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest
By William Shakespeare Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest,Now is the time that face should form another,Whose fresh repair if now …
Sonnet 2: When forty winters shall besiege thy brow
By William Shakespeare When forty winters shall besiege thy browAnd dig deep trenches in thy beauty’s field,Thy youth’s proud livery, so gazed on now,Will be …
Sonnet 1: From fairest creatures we desire increase
‘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’
Polonius’ Advice to Laertes
Advice a father gives to his son, who is to embark a journey.
Sonnet 29 : When, In Disgrace
By William Shakespeare When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes,I all alone beweep my outcast state,And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,And look …