Author: William Shakespeare

Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes, That they behold, and see not what they see? They […]

Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took, And each doth good turns now unto the other: When that […]

Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy will, And Will to boot, and Will in overplus; More than enough am […]

O, how thy worth with manners may I sing, When thou art all the better part of me? What can […]

So shall I live, supposing thou art true, Like a deceived husband; so love’s face May still seem love to […]

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of […]

Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan For that deep wound it gives my friend and me! Is’t […]

O me, what eyes hath Love put in my head, Which have no correspondence with true sight! Or, if they […]

Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage Thy merit hath my duty strongly knit, To thee I send this […]

Music to hear, why hear’st thou music sadly? Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy. Why lovest thou […]

O, how I faint when I of you do write, Knowing a better spirit doth use your name, And in […]

IT was a lover and his lass, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, That o’er the […]

What’s in the brain that ink may character Which hath not figured to thee my true spirit? What’s new to […]

Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth, My sinful earth these rebel powers array, Why dost thou pine within […]

O truant Muse, what shall be thy amends For thy neglect of truth in beauty dyed? Both truth and beauty […]

When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see, For all the day they view things unrespected; But when […]

Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed, The dear respose for limbs with travel tirèd; But then begins […]

Let me confess that we two must be twain, Although our undivided loves are one: So shall those blots that […]

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place […]

Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day And make me travel forth without my cloak, To let base clouds […]