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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised) – 23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England’s national poet, and the "Bard of Avon". His extant works, including collaborations, consist of approximately 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses.
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Poems by William Shakespeare

All the World’s a Stage

Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind

Come Away, Come Away, Death

Crabbed Age and Youth

Fear No More the Heat o’ the Sun

Friends, Romans, Countrymen

It Was a Lover and His Lass

O Mistress Mine

Sonnet 18: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?

Sonnet 29: When in Disgrace with Fortune and Men’s Eyes

Sonnet 30: When to the Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought

Sonnet 33: Full Many a Glorious Morning Have I Seen

Sonnet 55: Not Marble, nor the Gilded Monuments

Sonnet 57: Being Your Slave, What Should I Do but Tend

Sonnet 60: Like as the Waves Make Towards the Pebbled Shore

Sonnet 64: When I Have Seen by Time’s Fell Hand Defac’d

Sonnet 65: Since Brass, nor Stone, nor Earth, nor Boundless Sea

Sonnet 66: Tired with All These, for Restful Death I Cry

Sonnet 71: No Longer Mourn for Me When I am Dead

Sonnet 73: That Time of Year Thou Mayst in Me Behold

Sonnet 87: Farewell! Thou Art Too Dear for My Possessing

Sonnet 94: They That Have Power to Hurt, and Will Do None

Sonnet 97: How Like a Winter Hath My Absence Been

Sonnet 104: To Me, Fair Friend, You Never Can Be Old

Sonnet 106: When in the Chronicle of Wasted Time

Sonnet 109: O Never Say that I was False of Heart

Sonnet 116: Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds

Sonnet 130: My Mistress’ Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun

The Barge She Sat In

The Quality of Mercy

To Be or Not To Be

Under the Greenwood Tree

When Icicles Hang by the Wall