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Shakespeare Sonnet LXIII (63): Against my love shall be, as I am now

< Return to all 154 William Shakespeare Sonnets Sonnet LXIII (63) Against my love shall be, as I am now, With Time’s injurious hand crush’d and o’er-worn; When hours have drain’d his blood and fill’d his brow With lines and wrinkles; when his youthful morn Hath travell’d on to age’s steepy night, And all those […]

Shakespeare Sonnet LX (60): Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore

< Return to all 154 William Shakespeare Sonnets Sonnet LX (60) Like 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 all forwards do contend. Nativity, once in the main of light, Crawls to maturity, wherewith being […]

Shakespeare Sonnet LVIII (58): That god forbid that made me first your slave

< Return to all 154 William Shakespeare Sonnets Sonnet LVIII (58) That 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 your vassal, bound to stay your leisure! O, let me suffer, being at your beck, […]

Shakespeare Sonnet XLIX (49): Against that time, if ever that time come

< Return to all 154 William Shakespeare Sonnets Sonnet XLIX (49) Against that time, if ever that time come, When I shall see thee frown on my defects, When as thy love hath cast his utmost sum, Call’d to that audit by advised respects; Against that time when thou shalt strangely pass And scarcely greet […]

Shakespeare Sonnet XLVIII (48): How careful was I, when I took my way

< Return to all 154 William Shakespeare Sonnets Sonnet XLVIII (48) How careful was I, when I took my way, Each trifle under truest bars to thrust, That to my use it might unused stay From hands of falsehood, in sure wards of trust! But thou, to whom my jewels trifles are, Most worthy of […]

Shakespeare Sonnet XXVIII (28): How can I then return in happy plight

< Return to all 154 William Shakespeare Sonnets Sonnet XXVIII (28) How can I then return in happy plight, That am debarr’d the benefit of rest? When day’s oppression is not eased by night, But day by night, and night by day, oppress’d? And each, though enemies to either’s reign, Do in consent shake hands […]

William Shakespeare Sonnet Library

Top 10 Best Shakespeare Sonnets Top 10 Best Shakespeare Sonnets William Shakespeare Sonnet Library: All 154 Sonnets! I. (1) From fairest creatures we desire increase II. (2) When forty winters shall beseige thy brow III. (3) Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest IV. (4) Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend V. […]

“The Chimney Sweeper” Songs of Experience by William Blake

< Return to William Blake Poems “The Chimney Sweeper” (from “Songs of Experience”) A little black thing among the snow: Crying weep, weep, in notes of woe! Where are thy father & mother? say? They are both gone up to the church to pray. Because I was happy upon the heath, And smil’d among the […]

“The Chimney Sweeper” by William Blake (from “Songs of Innocence”)

< Return to William Blake Poems The Chimney Sweeper (from “Songs of Innocence”) When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue, Could scarcely cry weep weep weep weep. So your chimneys I sweep & in soot I sleep. There’s little Tom Dacre, who cried when his […]

“The Shepherd” by William Blake

< Return to William Blake Poems The Shepherd How sweet is the shepherd’s sweet lot! From the morn to the evening he strays; He shall follow his sheep all the day, And his tongue shall be filled with praise. For he hears the lambs’ innocent call, And he hears the ewes’ tender reply; He is […]