POET
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
BIOGRAPHY
Actor, dramatist, and poet, William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is the most highly regarded writer in the English language. Born in Stratford-Upon-Avon in England, Shakespeare wrote 38 plays, including Othello, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet, and Romeo and Juliet. His epic narrative poems and 154 sonnets include some of the world’s most quoted lines.POEMS
"Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind"
"Where the Bee Sucks, There Suck I"
Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun
Full Fadom Fiue Thy Father Lies
Hearke, Hearke, the Larke at Heauens Gate Sings
O Mistres Mine Where are you Roming?
Orpheus with his Lute Made Trees
Songs from the Plays - "When that I was and a little tiny boy"
Songs from the Plays - Fear No More the Heat o’ the Sun
Sonnet CIV: To me, fair friend, you never can be old
Sonnet CIX: O! never say that I was false of heart
Sonnet CVI: When in the Chronicle of Wasted Time
Sonnet CVII: Not mine own Fears, nor the Prophetic Soul
Sonnet CX: Alas, 'tis True I have Gone here and there
Sonnet CXI: O, for my Sake do you with Fortune Chide
Sonnet CXLI: In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes
Sonnet CXLIV: Two loves I have of comfort and despair
Sonnet CXLVI: Poor Soul, the Centre of my Sinful Earth
Sonnet CXVI: Let me not to the Marriage of True Minds
Sonnet CXXIX: "Th'expense of spirit in a waste of shame"
Sonnet CXXVI: O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy pow’r
Sonnet CXXX: My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing like the Sun
Sonnet CXXXV: Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy Will
Sonnet CXXXVIII: When my love swears that she is made of truth
Sonnet I: From fairest creatures we desire increase
Sonnet II: When forty winters shall besiege thy brow
Sonnet III: Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest
Sonnet LIII: "What is your substance, whereof are you made"
Sonnet LV: Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
Sonnet LVII: Being your slave, what should I do but tend
Sonnet LX: Like as the Waves Make towards the Pebbled Shore
Sonnet LXIV: When I have Seen by Time's Fell Hand Defaced
Sonnet LXV: Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea
Sonnet LXVI: Tir'd with all these, for Restful Death
Sonnet LXXI: No Longer Mourn for me when I am Dead
Sonnet LXXIII: That Time of Year thou mayst in me Behold
Sonnet LXXVI: Why is my verse so barren of new pride
Sonnet LXXXVII: Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing
Sonnet XCIV: They that have Power to Hurt and will do None
Sonnet XCVII: How like a Winter hath my Absence been
Sonnet XCVIII: From you have I been absent in the spring
Sonnet XII: "When I do count the clock that tells the time"
Sonnet XIX: Devouring Time, Blunt thou the Lion's Paws
Sonnet XL: Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all
Sonnet XV: When I Consider everything that Grows
Sonnet XVIII: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?
Sonnet XX: "A woman’s face with nature’s own hand painted"
Sonnet XXIX: When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes
Sonnet XXV: Let those who are in Favour with their Stars
Sonnet XXX: When to the Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought
Sonnet XXXII: If thou Survive my Well-contented Day
Sonnet XXXIII: Full many a Glorious Morning have I Seen
Sonnet XXXV: No more be grieved at that which thou hast done
