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Sonnets of William Shakespeare-Sonnet 72
2023-12-06O, lest the world should task you to reciteWhat merit lived in me, that you should loveAfter my death, dear love, forget me quite,For you in me can no...
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Sonnets of William Shakespeare-Sonnet 73
2023-12-06That time of year thou mayst in me beholdWhen yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hangUpon those boughs which shake against the cold,Bare ruin'd ch...
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Sonnets of William Shakespeare-Sonnet 74
2023-12-06But be contented: when that fell arrestWithout all bail shall carry me away,My life hath in this line some interest,Which for memorial still with thee...
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Sonnets of William Shakespeare-Sonnet 75
2023-12-06So are you to my thoughts as food to life,Or as sweet-season'd showers are to the ground;And for the peace of you I hold such strifeAs 'twixt ...
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Sonnets of William Shakespeare-Sonnet 76
2023-12-06Why is my verse so barren of new pride,So far from variation or quick change?Why with the time do I not glance asideTo new-found methods and to compou...
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Sonnets of William Shakespeare-Sonnet 77
2023-12-06Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear,Thy dial how thy precious minutes waste;The vacant leaves thy mind's imprint will bear,And of this ...
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Sonnets of William Shakespeare-Sonnet 78
2023-12-06So oft have I invoked thee for my MuseAnd found such fair assistance in my verseAs every alien pen hath got my useAnd under thee their poesy disperse....
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Sonnets of William Shakespeare-Sonnet 79
2023-12-06Whilst I alone did call upon thy aid,My verse alone had all thy gentle grace,But now my gracious numbers are decay'dAnd my sick Muse doth give ano...
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Sonnets of William Shakespeare-Sonnet 80
2023-12-06O, how I faint when I of you do write,Knowing a better spirit doth use your name,And in the praise thereof spends all his might,To make me tongue-tied...
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Sonnets of William Shakespeare-Sonnet 81
2023-12-06Or I shall live your epitaph to make,Or you survive when I in earth am rotten;From hence your memory death cannot take,Although in me each part will b...