< Return to William Shakespeare Poems Sonnet XCIX (99) The forward violet thus did I chide: Sweet thief, whence didst thou steal thy sweet that smells, If not from my love’s breath? The purple pride Which on thy soft cheek for complexion dwells In my love’s veins thou hast too grossly dyed. The lily I […]
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Shakespeare Sonnet XCVIII (98): From you have I been absent in the spring
< Return to all 154 William Shakespeare Sonnets Sonnet XCVIII (98) From you have I been absent in the spring, When proud-pied April dress’d in all his trim Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing, That heavy Saturn laugh’d and leap’d with him. Yet nor the lays of birds nor the sweet smell […]
Shakespeare Sonnet XCVII (97): How like a winter hath my absence been
< Return to all 154 William Shakespeare Sonnets Sonnet XCVII (97) How like a winter hath my absence been From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen! What old December’s bareness every where! And yet this time removed was summer’s time, The teeming autumn, big with […]
Shakespeare Sonnet XCVI (96): Some say thy fault is youth, some wantonness
< Return to all 154 William Shakespeare Sonnets Sonnet XCVI (96) Some say thy fault is youth, some wantonness; Some say thy grace is youth and gentle sport; Both grace and faults are loved of more and less; Thou makest faults graces that to thee resort. As on the finger of a throned queen The […]
Shakespeare Sonnet XCV (95): How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame
< Return to all 154 William Shakespeare Sonnets Sonnet XCV (95) How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame Which, like a canker in the fragrant rose, Doth spot the beauty of thy budding name! O, in what sweets dost thou thy sins enclose! That tongue that tells the story of thy days, Making […]
Shakespeare Sonnet XCIV (94): They that have power to hurt and will do none
< Return to all 154 William Shakespeare Sonnets Sonnet XCIV (94) They that have power to hurt and will do none, That do not do the thing they most do show, Who, moving others, are themselves as stone, Unmoved, cold, and to temptation slow, They rightly do inherit heaven’s graces And husband nature’s riches from […]
Shakespeare Sonnet XCIII (93): So shall I live, supposing thou art true
< Return to all 154 William Shakespeare Sonnets Sonnet XCIII (93) So shall I live, supposing thou art true, Like a deceived husband; so love’s face May still seem love to me, though alter’d new; Thy looks with me, thy heart in other place: For there can live no hatred in thine eye, Therefore in […]
Shakespeare Sonnet XCII (92): But do thy worst to steal thyself away
< Return to all 154 William Shakespeare Sonnets Sonnet XCII (92) But do thy worst to steal thyself away, For term of life thou art assured mine, And life no longer than thy love will stay, For it depends upon that love of thine. Then need I not to fear the worst of wrongs, When […]
Shakespeare Sonnet XCI (91): Some glory in their birth, some in their skill
< Return to all 154 William Shakespeare Sonnets Sonnet XCI (91) Some glory in their birth, some in their skill, Some in their wealth, some in their bodies’ force, Some in their garments, though new-fangled ill, Some in their hawks and hounds, some in their horse; And every humour hath his adjunct pleasure, Wherein it […]
Shakespeare Sonnet XC (90): Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now
< Return to all 154 William Shakespeare Sonnets Sonnet XC (90) Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now; Now, while the world is bent my deeds to cross, Join with the spite of fortune, make me bow, And do not drop in for an after-loss: Ah, do not, when my heart hath ‘scoped […]
Shakespeare Sonnet XII (12): When I do count the clock that tells the time
< Return to all 154 William Shakespeare Sonnets Sonnet XII (12) When I do count the clock that tells the time, And see the brave day sunk in hideous night; When I behold the violet past prime, And sable curls all silver’d o’er with white; When lofty trees I see barren of leaves Which erst […]
Shakespeare Sonnet XI (11): As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou growest
< Return to all 154 William Shakespeare Sonnets Sonnet XI (11) As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou growest In one of thine, from that which thou departest; And that fresh blood which youngly thou bestowest Thou mayst call thine when thou from youth convertest. Herein lives wisdom, beauty and increase: Without this, […]
Shakespeare Sonnet X (10): For shame! deny that thou bear’st love to any
< Return to all 154 William Shakespeare Sonnets Sonnet X (10) For shame! deny that thou bear’st love to any, Who for thyself art so unprovident. Grant, if thou wilt, thou art beloved of many, But that thou none lovest is most evident; For thou art so possess’d with murderous hate That ‘gainst thyself thou […]
Shakespeare Sonnet VIII (8): Music to hear, why hear’st thou music sadly?
< Return to all 154 William Shakespeare Sonnets Sonnet VIII (8) Music to hear, why hear’st thou music sadly? Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy. Why lovest thou that which thou receivest not gladly, Or else receivest with pleasure thine annoy? If the true concord of well-tuned sounds, By unions married, do […]
Shakespeare Sonnet VII (7): Lo! in the orient when the gracious light
< Return to all 154 William Shakespeare Sonnets Sonnet VII (7) Lo! in the orient when the gracious light Lifts up his burning head, each under eye Doth homage to his new-appearing sight, Serving with looks his sacred majesty; And having climb’d the steep-up heavenly hill, Resembling strong youth in his middle age, yet mortal […]
Shakespeare Sonnet VI (6): Then let not winter’s ragged hand deface
< Return to all 154 William Shakespeare Sonnets Sonnet VI (6) Then let not winter’s ragged hand deface In thee thy summer, ere thou be distill’d: Make sweet some vial; treasure thou some place With beauty’s treasure, ere it be self-kill’d. That use is not forbidden usury, Which happies those that pay the willing loan; […]
Shakespeare Sonnet V (5): Those hours, that with gentle work did frame
< Return to all 154 William Shakespeare Sonnets Sonnet V (5) Those hours, that with gentle work did frame The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell, Will play the tyrants to the very same And that unfair which fairly doth excel: For never-resting time leads summer on To hideous winter and confounds him there; […]
Book Club Announcement: ‘Winter Stars’ by Sonia Barkat
In September, Callie Feyen leads our next book club discussion of Sonia Barkat’s ‘Winter Stars: three 10-minute plays.’ Come play with us.
Poetry Prompt: Dor
The word dor invites us to embrace loneliness rather than overcome it. This week Callie Feyen has a poetry prompt about accepting our aches.
Poetry Prompt: Seeing Stars
Have you ever received a gift you didn’t know you needed? Join Callie Feyen on a summer night of seeing stars and learning to let go.