“in black ink my love may still shine bright.”
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Shakespeare's sonnets are poems that William Shakespeare wrote on a variety of themes. When discussing or referring to Shakespeare's sonnets, it is almost always a reference to the 154 sonnets that were first published all together in a quarto in 1609; however, there are six additional sonnets that Shakespeare wrote and included in the plays Romeo and Juliet, Henry V and Love's Labour's Lost. There is a partial sonnet found in the play Edward III.
“Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments.”
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Source: Sonnets (1609), CXVI
“Why should we rise because 'tis light?
Did we lie down because t'was night?”
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“The worst was this: my love was my decay.”
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“If thou dost seek to have what thou dost hide,
By self-example mayst thou be denied.”
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“All days are nights to see till I see thee,
And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.”
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“Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?”
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“So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”
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Source: Sonnets (1609), XVIII
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“Summer's lease hath all too short a date.”
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Source: Sonnets (1609), XVIII
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Context: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date
“April hath put a spirit of youth in everything. (Sonnet XCVIII)”
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“For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright,
Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.”
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