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Sonnets of William Shakespeare-Sonnet 52
2023-12-06So am I as the rich, whose blessed keyCan bring him to his sweet up-locked treasure,The which he will not every hour survey,For blunting the fine poin...
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Sonnets of William Shakespeare-Sonnet 53
2023-12-06What is your substance, whereof are you made,That millions of strange shadows on you tend?Since every one hath, every one, one shade,And you, but one,...
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Sonnets of William Shakespeare-Sonnet 54
2023-12-06O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seemBy that sweet ornament which truth doth give!The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deemFor that sweet odour...
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Sonnets of William Shakespeare-Sonnet 55
2023-12-06Not marble, nor the gilded monumentsOf princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme;But you shall shine more bright in these contentsThan unswept stone ...
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Sonnets of William Shakespeare-Sonnet 56
2023-12-06Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not saidThy edge should blunter be than appetite,Which but to-day by feeding is allay'd,To-morrow sharpen'd...
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Sonnets of William Shakespeare-Sonnet 57
2023-12-06Being your slave, what should I do but tendUpon the hours and times of your desire?I have no precious time at all to spend,Nor services to do, till yo...
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Sonnets of William Shakespeare-Sonnet 58
2023-12-06That god forbid that made me first your slave,I should in thought control your times of pleasure,Or at your hand the account of hours to crave,Being y...
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Sonnets of William Shakespeare-Sonnet 59
2023-12-06If there be nothing new, but that which isHath been before, how are our brains beguiled,Which, labouring for invention, bear amissThe second burden of...
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Sonnets of William Shakespeare-Sonnet 60
2023-12-06Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,So do our minutes hasten to their end;Each changing place with that which goes before,In sequent toil...
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Sonnets of William Shakespeare-Sonnet 61
2023-12-06Is it thy will thy image should keep openMy heavy eyelids to the weary night?Dost thou desire my slumbers should be broken,While shadows like to thee ...