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Sep 14, 2022 · Excerpts and analysis of the 10 most renowned poems of English writer William Shakespeare, including his famous sonnets and narrative poems.
May 13, 2024 · Let’s explore Shakespeare’s extensive repertoir of masterpieces, which contain hidden gems — his famous short poems that are brimming with emotions, beauty, and wisdom! Together, we will immerse ourselves in his magic, leaving us enchanted and eager to read more.
- Sonnet 130. My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;Coral is far more red than her lips’ red;If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.I have seen roses damasked, red and white,But no such roses see I in her cheeks;And in some perfumes is there more delightThan in the breath that from my mistress reeks.I love to hear her speak, yet well I knowThat music hath a far more pleasing sound;I grant I never saw a goddess go;My mistress when she walks treads on the ground.And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rareAs any she belied with false compare.
- Sonnet 17. Who will believe my verse in time to come,If it were filled with your most high deserts?Though yet heaven knows it is but as a tombWhich hides your life, and shows not half your parts.If I could write the beauty of your eyes,And in fresh numbers number all your graces,The age to come would say 'This poet lies;Such heavenly touches ne'er touched earthly faces.
- Sonnet 116. Let me not to the marriage of true mindsAdmit impediments. Love is not loveWhich alters when it alteration finds,Or bends with the remover to remove.O no!
- The Phoenix and Turtle. Let the bird of loudest layOn the sole Arabian treeHerald sad and trumpet be,To whose sound chaste wings obey. But thou shrieking harbinger,Foul precurrer of the fiend,Augur of the fever's end,To this troop come thou not near.
- Venus and Adonis (1593) Even as the sun with purple-colour’d face. Had ta’en his last leave of the weeping morn, Rose-cheek’d Adonis tried him to the chase;
- The Rape of Lucrece (1594) Her lily hand her rosy cheek lies under, Cozening the pillow of a lawful kiss; Who, therefore angry, seems to part in sunder, Swelling on either side to want his bliss;
- Seven Ages of Man – All the World’s a Stage (1599) All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances;
- Sonnet 1 – From Fairest Creatures We Desire Increase (1609) From fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beauty’s rose might never die, But as the riper should by time decease,
Jul 24, 2024 · William Shakespeare, the renowned English playwright and poet, crafted timeless works that continue to entertain audiences worldwide with their profound insights into human nature and enduring literary brilliance.
While William Shakespeare’s reputation is based primarily on his plays, he became famous first as a poet. With the partial exception of the Sonnets (1609), quarried since the early 19th century for autobiographical secrets allegedly encoded in them, the nondramatic writings have traditionally been…
Shakespeare is widely recognised as the greatest English poet the world has ever known. Not only were his plays mainly written in verse, but he also penned 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems and a few other minor poems. Today he has become a symbol of poetry and writing internationally.
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