Complete SonnetsWithout a doubt the most important of Shakespeare's nondramatic works, the sonnets have engendered reams of scholarly disputation as to the identity of "the dark lady" and the "lovely boy" to whom the vast majority are addressed. Controversy has also long simmered over the full name of the "W.H." of the dedication. What is not in dispute is the superior quality of these lyrics, which rank among the finest sonnets ever written — in any language. |
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... 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 gaudy spring , Within thine own bud buriest thy content , And , 1 The Sonnets.
... lies , Where all the treasure of thy lusty days ; To say , within thine own deep sunken eyes , , Were an all - eating shame and thriftless praise . How much more praise deserv'd thy beauty's use , If thou couldst answer - This fair ...
... lies , , Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces . So should my papers , yellow'd with their age , Be scorn'd , like old men of less truth than tongue ; And your true rights be term'd a poet's rage , And stretched metre of an ...
... lies , Which in my bosom's shop is hanging still , That hath his windows glazed with thine eyes . Now see what good turns eyes for eyes have done : Mine eyes have drawn thy shape , and thine for me Are windows to my breast , where ...
... lies buried , For at a frown they in their glory die . The painful warrior famoused for fight , After a thousand victories once foil'd , Is from the book of honour razed quite , And all the rest forgot for which he toild : Then happy I ...