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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: shakespeare william, Matches Found: 520 Shakespeare, William Poet's Biography 518 poems available by this author A DAGGER OF THE MIND [OR, THE VISIONARY DAGGER], FR. MACBETH Poem Text First Line: Is this a dagger which I see before me Last Line: That summons thee to heaven or to hell. Variant Title(s): The Dagger Scene;macbeth Before The Murder Of Duncan;soliloquy;the Murder;night A LOVER'S COMPLAINT Poem Text First Line: From off a hill whose concave womb reworded Last Line: "and new pervert a reconciled maid!" ABUSE OF AUTHORITY First Line: Oh! It is excellent ACT I, SCENE VI First Line: ... As we paced along Subject(s): Sea ACT II, SCENE V First Line: Now sways it this way, like a mighty sea Subject(s): Sea ADAM'S WARNING First Line: What, my young master? O my gentle master! ADVERSITY First Line: Sweet are the uses of adversity Subject(s): Religion AENEAS AND ANCHISES First Line: I was born free as caesar; so were you AGAINST INFECTION AND THE HAND OF WAR Subject(s): Country Life AIRY NOTHINGS. FR. THE TEMPEST Poem Text First Line: Our revels are now ended. These our actors Last Line: Is rounded with sleep. Variant Title(s): Such Stuff As Dreams;the Pageant;finale;human Life;end Of All Earthly Glory;life's Pageant;after Seeing A Masque [the Grand Style];prospero's Farewell To His Magic Subject(s): Fairies; Life Change Events; Time; Elves ALAS! POOR YORICK. I KNEW HIM HORATIO ALL PLACES YIELD TO HIM ERE HE SITS DOWN Last Line: To extol what it hath done ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL, SELS. Subject(s): Mothers AMIENS'S SONGS AND SUDDENLY; WHERE INJURY OF CHANCE Last Line: Distasted with the salt of broken tears ANNE BULLEN First Line: Not for that neither - here's the pang that pinches ANNE HATHAWAY First Line: Would ye be taught, ye feathered throng Last Line: To be heaven's self, anne hath a way Subject(s): Hathaway, Anne (1556-1623) ANTONY / LEAVE THY LASCIVIOUS WASSAILS Last Line: So much as lank'd not ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, SELS. ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, SELS. First Line: Enobarbus: I will tell you Last Line: And made a gap in nature. %agrippa: rare egiptian ANTONY AND THE SOOTHSAYER First Line: Say to me APRIL, FR. LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST Poem Text First Line: When [or, now] daisies pied and violets blue Last Line: Unpleasing to a married ear! Variant Title(s): Spring;ver And Hiems;april Subject(s): Cuckolds; Spring; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy ARE NOT THESE WOODS Last Line: Sermons in stones, and good in every thing ARIEL'S SONG (1) [OR, DIRGE] [OR, A SEA DIRGE]. FR. THE TEMPEST Poem Text First Line: Full fathom five thy father lies Last Line: Hark! Now I hear them - ding, dong, bell! Subject(s): Disasters; Drowning; Fairies; Mourning; Shipwrecks; Elves; Bereavement ARIEL'S SONG (2), FR. THE TEMPEST Poem Text First Line: Where the bee sucks, there suck I Last Line: Under the blossom that hangs on the bough. Subject(s): Bees; Fairies; Insects; Love; Beekeeping; Elves; Bugs ARION First Line: To comfort you with a chance AS YOU LIKE IT, SELS. AS YOU LIKE IT: A WEDLOCK HYMN Poem Text First Line: Wedding is great juno's crown Last Line: To hymen, god of every town! Subject(s): Wedding Song; Epithalamium AUBADE [OR, A MORNING SONG FOR IMOGEN], FR. CYMBELINE Poem Text First Line: Hark! Hark! The lark at heaven's gate sings Last Line: Arise, arise! Variant Title(s): Song At Sunrise;song To Imogen Subject(s): Birds; Dawn; Larks; Morning; Spring; Sunrise; Skylarks AUTOLICUS'S SONGS BE CHEERFUL, SIR BLESS OUR POOR VIRGINITY FROM UNDERMINERS AND BLOWERS UP Last Line: Marry, yet 'tis a withered pear. Will you anything with it? BLUNTNESS First Line: This is some fellow BRING US IN GOOD ALE First Line: Bring us in good ale, and bring us in good ale Last Line: But bring us in good ale! BUCKINGHAM'S ADDRESS First Line: All good people %you that have thus far come to pity me BUT HEAVEN HATH A HAND IN THESE EVENTS BUT I DO THINK IT IS THEIR HUSBANDS' FAULTS Last Line: The ills we do, their ills instruct us so BUT MAN, PROUD MAN First Line: O! It is excellent %to have a giant's strength CALIBAN [ON THE ISLAND], FR. THE TEMPEST Poem Text First Line: Be not afeard: the isle is full of noise Last Line: I cried to dream again. Subject(s): Dreams; Sound; Nightmares CARDINAL WOLSEY ON BEING CAST OFF BY HENRY VIII First Line: Nay, then, farewell %I have touched the highest point of all my greatness CARE KEEPS HIS WATCH IN EVERY OLD MAN'S EYES Subject(s): Conscientiousness CARNATION First Line: Perdita. Sir, the year growing ancient Last Line: Are our carnation and streak'd gillyvors %which some call nature's bastards Subject(s): Flowers CAUTION First Line: When clouds are seen, wise men put on their cloaks CHARACTER First Line: His nature is too noble for the world CHASTITY First Line: The noble sister of publicola CHILDISH FRIENDSHIP First Line: We were %two lads, that thought there was CLAUDIO ON DEATH First Line: Death is a fearful thing Subject(s): Poetry And Poets CLEOPATRA'S RESOLUTION First Line: Royal egypt! Empress CLOSET SCENE First Line: Now, mother, what's the matter? COCKATRICE First Line: This will so fright them both that they will kill COLUMBINE: COLUMBINE First Line: There's rosemary, that's for remembrance Last Line: They say 'a made a good end Subject(s): Flowers COME, HOW WOULDST THOU PRAISE ME? Last Line: O most lame and impotent conclusion! Do not learn of him COMEDY OF ERRORS, SELS. COMMON MOTHER, THOU Last Line: That from it all consideration slips COMPLIMENT TO QUEEN ELIZABETH, FR. A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM Poem Text First Line: My gentle puck, come hither Last Line: Fetch me that flower. Variant Title(s): Maiden Meditation Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Fairies; Elves CONSCIENCE First Line: It is a dang'rous CORIOLANUS AND AUFIDIUS First Line: Thou canst not hope acquittal from the volscians CORIOLANUS, SELS. CORIOLANUS: THE BELLY AND THE MEMBERS First Line: There was a time when all the body's members Last Line: And leave me but the bran Subject(s): Bodies COULD GREAT MEN THUNDER Last Line: Would all themselves laugh mortal COURAGE First Line: To be furious is to be frightened out of fear COURSE OF LOVE First Line: Her father loved me; oft invited me Subject(s): Love COWARDS First Line: Cowards die many times before their deaths Last Line: Will come, when it will come COWSLIPS TALL HER PENSIONERS BE CRANMER'S PROPHECY OF QUEEN ELIZABETH First Line: Thank you, good lord archbishop: what is her name? Subject(s): History CYMBELINE, SELS. Subject(s): Sea DAFFODILS First Line: Daffodils %that come before the swallow dares Subject(s): Spring DEATH OF QUEEN KATHARINE First Line: Spirits of peace, where are ye? Are ye all gone Subject(s): Faith DEATHS OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA DEEP-MOUTH'D SEA Subject(s): Sea DEGREE BEING VIZARDED Last Line: And last eat up himself DIDO First Line: Unhappy, dido, was thy fate DOST THOU FORGET Last Line: Thou hast howl'd away twelve winters DOUBTS First Line: Our doubts are traitors Subject(s): Religion EACH AND ALL First Line: Heaven doth with us as we with EARL OF RICHMOND TO HIS ARMY First Line: More than I have said, loving countrymen EASTERN STAR First Line: Finish good lady, the bright day is done Last Line: That sucks the nurse asleep EPILOGUE SPOKEN BY PROSPERO, SELS. First Line: Now I want %spirits to enforce, art to enchant EVEN OR ODD OF ALL DAYS IN THE YEAR Last Line: For I had then laid wormwood to my dug EXHORTATION TO COURAGE First Line: But wherefore do you droop? Why look you sad? FA LA LA First Line: My mistress frowns when she should play Last Line: None pleaseth like your fa la la FANCY, FR. THE MERCHANT OF VENICE Poem Text First Line: Tell me where is fancy bred Last Line: Ding, dong, bell. Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy FATHER LOST, A HUSBAND WON First Line: Gloucester. Here's france and burgundy, my noble Subject(s): Love FEAR OF DEATH First Line: Be absolute for death; either death or life FESTE'S SONG (1), FR. TWELFTH NIGHT Poem Text First Line: O mistress mine, where are you roaming? Last Line: Youth's stuff will not endure. Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Holidays; Love; Valentine's Day; Youth FESTE'S SONG (2), FR. TWELFTH NIGHT Poem Text First Line: When that I was and a little tiny boy Last Line: And wee'l strive to please you every day. Variant Title(s): Clown Sings Subject(s): Rain FICKLE MOB First Line: What would you have, you FIE, FIE UPON HER Last Line: And daughters of the game FINE KNACKS FOR LADIES First Line: Fine knacks for ladies! Cheap, choice, brave, and new Last Line: Of others take a sheaf, of me a grain! %of me a grain! FINE OLD ENGLISH GENTLEMAN First Line: I'll sing you a good old song Last Line: All of the olden time FIRMNESS First Line: We must not stint FOOL MORALIZING ON TIME First Line: Good morrow fool,' quoth I FOR A PATRIOT First Line: Be just, and fear not FOR WHO WOULD BEAR THE WHIPS AND SCORNS OF TIME FORESIGHT First Line: No man is the lord of any thing FORSOOTH, IN LOVE! I, THAT HAVE BEEN LOVE'S WHIP Last Line: Some men must love my lady, and some joan FORTUNE'S FINGER First Line: And blest are those FRIENDS IN DEATH First Line: Suffolk first died; and york, all haggled over Subject(s): Friendship FRIENDSHIP [OR, THE TRUE FRIEND] Poem Text First Line: O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven Last Line: Words without thought never to heaven go. Subject(s): Prayer FROM THE FAIR LAVINIAN SHORE Poem Text Last Line: Though you are threescore years old. Subject(s): Gold; Markets; Retail Trade; Salespersons; Supermarkets; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers; Selling FUNERAL SONG First Line: Urns and odours bring away Subject(s): Winter GENTLEMAN First Line: See, what a grace was seated on his brow Variant Title(s): A Portrai GET THEE TO A NUNNERY: WHY WOULDST THOU BE A BREEDER Last Line: To a nunnery, go GLAMIS THOU ART, AND CAWDOR; AND SHALT BE Last Line: To have thee crown'd withal GODS ARE JUST, AND OF OUR PLEASANT GOOD COUNSEL OF POLONIUS First Line: Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar GOOD FAITH, THIS SAME YOUNG SOBER-BLOODED BOY DOTH NOT Last Line: Forswear thin potations and to addict themselves to sack GRANT THEM REMOV'D, AND GRANT THAT THIS YOUR NOISE Last Line: And this your mountainish inhumanity GREAT MAN DOWN, YOU MARK HIS FAVORITE FLIES GUIDANCE First Line: Rashly, - %and praised be rashness for it HAD I BUT DIED AN HOUR BEFORE THIS CHANCE Last Line: Is left this vault to brag of HAD I THIS CHEEK Last Line: Encounter such revolt HAMLET Poem Text First Line: Who's there? Last Line: Of ordnance is shot off. Subject(s): Insanity; Love; Revenge; Supernatural; Tragedy; Madness; Mental Illness HAMLET, IV, SELS. First Line: How should I your true love know Last Line: With true-love showers HATE AND REVENGE First Line: A plague upon them! Wherefore should I curse them HATRED First Line: The worm of conscience still be-gnaw thy soul! HATRED AND REVENGE First Line: How like a fawning publican he looks HAVING DONE AND DOING First Line: Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Last Line: Than what not stirs HE EATS NOTHING BUT DOVES, LOVE; AND THAT BREEDS HOT Last Line: Why, they are vipers: is love a generation of vipers? HE NO MORE REMEMBERS HIS MOTHER NOW THAN AN EIGHT-YEAR-OLD Last Line: He wants nothing of a god but eternity and a heaven to throne in HE THAT WILL GIVE GOOD WORDS TO THEE WILL FLATTER Last Line: Him vile that was your garland HE WAS THE SOUL OF GOODNESS HEALTHFUL OLD AGE, FR. AS YOU LIKE IT Poem Text First Line: Let me be your servant Last Line: In all your business and necessities. Variant Title(s): Old Age Of Temperance Subject(s): Aging HERO'S EPITAPH First Line: Done to death by slanderous tongues Subject(s): Consolation HIGHER LOYALTY First Line: Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition Subject(s): Religion HIS WORDS ARE BONDS, HIS OATHS ARE ORACLES HOLD UP, YOU SLUTS Last Line: And ditches grave you all HOLLY AND THE IVY Last Line: Sweet singing in the quire HOLLYHOCK: FEMALE AMBITION First Line: Glamis thou art, and cawdor; and shalt be Last Line: And yet wouldst wrongly win Subject(s): Flowers HONOUR, RICHES, MARRIAGE-BLESSINGS Last Line: Ceres' blessing so is on you Subject(s): Life Change Events HOY-DAY! WHAT A SWEEP OF VANITY COMES THIS WAY Last Line: Men shut their doors against a setting sun I AM AMAZ'D, METHINKS, AND LOSE MY WAY Last Line: Hold out this tempest I AM DEAD, HORATIO I AM GIDDY, EXPECTATION WHIRLS ME ROUND Last Line: The enemy flying I CANNOT TELL WHAT YOU AND OTHER MEN Last Line: And bear the palm alone I DID DISLIKE THE CUT OF A CERTAIN COURTIER'S BEARD Last Line: Your 'if' is the only peace-maker; much virtue in 'if.' I DO AFFECT THE VERY GROUND, WHICH IS BASE, WHERE HER SHOE Last Line: I am for whole volumes in folio I DO SEE THE BOTTOM OF JUSTICE SHALLOW. LORD, LORD! Last Line: And now has he land and beefs I DREAM'D THERE WAS AN EMPEROR ANTHONY Last Line: As plates dropp'd from his pocket I FOLLOW HIM TO SERVE MY TURN UPON HIM Last Line: For daws to peck at: I am not what I am I HAVE LIV'D LONG ENOUGH: MY WAY OF LIFE Last Line: Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not I PRAY YOU, WHAT IS'T O'CLOCK? Subject(s): Country Life I THINK CRAB MY DOG BE THE SOUREST-NATURED DOG THAT LIVES Last Line: How I lay the dust with my tears I WILL NOT CHANGE MY HORSE WITH ANY TREADS Last Line: He trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it Subject(s): Animals I WOULD I HAD THAT CORPORAL SOUNDNESS NOW Last Line: To give some labourers room IDEAL FRIENDSHIP First Line: What ho! Horatio IF ADAM FELL IN THE DAYS OF INNOCENCY IF I BE FALSE, OR SWERVE A HAIR FROM TRUTH Last Line: As false as cressid IF I BEGIN THE BATTERY ONCE AGAIN Last Line: What say you? Will you yield, and this avoid? IF I DO PROVE HER HAGGARD Last Line: When we do quicken IF THOU WERT THE LION, THE FOX WOULD BEGUILE THEE Last Line: That seest not thy loss in transformation IF WE SHADOWS HAVE OFFENDED Last Line: No more yielding but a dream Subject(s): Mythical Animals IMAGINATION First Line: More strange that true: I never may IMAGINATION, FR. A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM Poem Text First Line: The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Last Line: A local habitation and a name. Subject(s): Imagination; Poetry & Poets; Fancy IN OLIVIA'S GARDEN First Line: Maria. Get ye all three into the box-tree Subject(s): Love IN PERDITA'S GARDEN First Line: Fie, daughter! When my old wive liv'd, upon Subject(s): Daffodils; Gardens And Gardening IN THE SPRINGTIME, THE ONLY PRETTY RING-TIME IN TUNE WITH THE INFINITE Subject(s): Religion INCH-THICK, KNEE-DEEP, O'ER HEAD AND EARS A FORK'D ONE Last Line: Have the disease and feel't not IRIS First Line: Hail, many-colored messenger, that ne'er IS THERE NO WAY FOR MEN TO BE, BUT WOMEN Last Line: The very devils cannot plague them better IS WHISPERING NOTHING Last Line: If this be nothing JANUS First Line: Now, by two-headed janus JEALOUSY First Line: For michael cassio Subject(s): Love JEALOUSY First Line: Not poppy, nor mandragora JULIUS CAESAR, SELS. Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Courage; Death; Religion KIND FORTUNE Poem Text First Line: Kind fortune smiles, and she Last Line: Follow me, and you shall see. Subject(s): Happiness; Smiles; Joy; Delight KING HENRY IV, SELS. Subject(s): Courage KING HENRY V, SELS. Subject(s): Agincourt, Battle Of (1415); Courage; Harfleur, France, Battle Of; History; War KING HENRY VI, SELS. Subject(s): Country Life; Courage; Faith; History; Religion KING HENRY VIII, SELS. KING JOHN, SELS. First Line: If england to itself do rest but true Subject(s): Courage; Death; History KING LEAR, SELS. Subject(s): England; Hate; Lear, King; Mothers; Social Protest KING RICHARD II, SELS. First Line: O! Who can hold a fire in his hand KING RICHARD II: THE GARDENER'S LESSON First Line: Go bind thou up young dangling apricocks Last Line: Which waste of idle hours hath quite thrown down KING RICHARD III, SELS. Subject(s): Freedom; Great Britain - History; Mothers; Sea LABYRINTH First Line: Suffolk, stay LAY THY FINGER THUS, AND LET THY SOUL BE INSTRUCTED Last Line: Hand comes the master and main exercise, the incorporate conclusion. Pish! LET ME LIVE, FR. MEASURE FOR MEASURE Poem Text First Line: What saies my brother? Last Line: To what we feare of death. Variant Title(s): Life And Death Subject(s): Life LET THE GREAT GODS Last Line: More sinn'd against than sinning LIST THEN. YOUR COUSIN Last Line: The surge that next approaches LOVE AND MARRIAGE OF FERNINAND AND MIRANDA First Line: Courtsied when you have, and kikss'd LOVE AND WOMAN, FR. LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST Poem Text First Line: But what of this? Are we not all in love? Last Line: And who can sever love from charity? Subject(s): Love LOVE DISSEMBLED, FR. AS YOU LIKE IT Poem Text First Line: Think not I love him, though I ask for him Last Line: But that's all one; omittance is no quittance. Subject(s): Admiration LOVE THYSELF First Line: Love thyself last; cherish thou hearts that hate thee LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST, SELS. LOVE, FR. THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA Poem Text First Line: To be in love, where scorn is bought with groans Last Line: Or else a wit by folly vanquished. LULLABY FOR TITANIA, FR. A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM Poem Text First Line: You spotted snakes with double tongue Last Line: So, good-night, with lullaby. Variant Title(s): Fairy Lullaby;fairies' Song;the Fairies Sing Titania To Sleep;an Outcry Upon Opportunity MACBETH, SELS. Subject(s): Death; Holidays; Murder; Religion; Supernatural MACBETH, SELS. First Line: Seyton: it is the cry of women, my good lord Last Line: Thou com'st to use thy tongue: thy story quickly MAN First Line: Man, proud man %dressed in a little brief authority Subject(s): Mankind MAN MAY SEE HOW THIS WORLD GOES WITH NO EYES Last Line: To see the things thou dost not MARKS OF LOVE First Line: Rosalind - an old religious uncle of mine taught Subject(s): Love MARTIAL FRIENDSHIP First Line: O marcius, marcius! MARULLUS TO THE ROMAN POPULACE First Line: Wherefore rejoice that caesar comes in triumph MEASURE FOR MEASURE, SELS. MERCHANT OF VENICE, SELS. MERCHANT OF VENICE, SELS. First Line: Portia: then must the jew be mercifull Last Line: Must needes give sentence 'gainst the merchant there MERCHANT OF VENICE: SADNESS AND MERRIMENT First Line: In sooth, I know not why I am so sad Last Line: I'll end my exhortation after dinner MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, SELS. MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, SELS. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Fairies; Supernatural; Winter MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM: YOU NICKE BOTTOME ARE SET DOWNE FOR PYRAMU Last Line: Ercles vaine, a tyrants vaine: a louer is more condoling MILKING PAILS First Line: Mary's gone a-milking Last Line: Gentle sweet mother o' mine MOTHER'S BLESSING First Line: Be thou blest, bertram! And succeed MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, SELS. Subject(s): Love MUSIC OF THE SPHERES First Line: Look, jessica, see how the floor of heaven MUSIC, FR. TWELFTH NIGHT Poem Text First Line: If music be the food of love, play on Last Line: That it alone, is high fantastical. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Music & Musicians NATURA NATURANS First Line: Nature is made better by no mean NAY, IVY, NAY Last Line: As the manner ys NAY, YOU SHALL HEAR, MASTER BROOK, WHAT I HAVE SUFFERED Last Line: Think of that, hissing hot, think of that, master brook NESTOR TO HECTOR First Line: I have, thou gallant trojan NIGHT HAS BEEN UNRULY: WHERE WE LAY Last Line: Was feverous and did shake NIGHTINGALE, IF SHE SHOULD SING BY DAY NO, NOT AN OATH: IF NOT THE FACE OF MEN Last Line: Of any promise that hath pass'd from him NOBLEST OF MEN, WOO'T DIE? NOT THINE OWN First Line: Thyself and thy belongings Subject(s): Religion NOVICE First Line: Hail virgin, if you be, as these cheek-roses Subject(s): Nuns NOW HEAR OUR ENGLISH KING Last Line: To fierce and bloody inclination NOW, MY CO-MATES AND BROTHERS IN EXILE Last Line: I would not change it Subject(s): Environment; Trees O BLESSED BREEDING SUN! DRAW FROM THE EARTH Last Line: Do thy right nature O PANDARUS! I TELL THEE, PANDARUS Last Line: The knife that made it O ROSALIND! THESE TREES SHALL BE MY BOOKS Last Line: The fair, the chaste, and unexpressive she Subject(s): Environment; Trees O THOU FOUL THIEF! WHERE HAST THOU STOW'D MY DAUGHTER? Last Line: Subdue him at his peril O! BEWARE, MY LORD, OF JEALOUSY Last Line: Good heaven, the souls of all my tribe defend %from jealousy O! THAT I THOUGHT I COULD BE IN A WOMAN Last Line: And simpler than the infancy of truth O, IT IS MONSTROUS! MONSTROUS! Last Line: And with him there lie mudded OH! DEAR! First Line: Oh! Dear! What can the matter be? Last Line: Johnny's so long at the fair OH, MISTRESS MINE OLIVIA, FR. TWELFTH NIGHT Poem Text First Line: Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white Last Line: And leave the world no copy. Subject(s): Admiration ON DEGREE First Line: The heavens themselves, the planets and ... ON KINGLY CEREMONY First Line: What infinite heart's-ease ONE TOUCH OF NATURE First Line: For time is like a fashionable host OPHELIA'S SONG (2) First Line: They bore him barefaced on the briar ORACLE First Line: Mine honesty and I begin to square ORACLE First Line: There is a mystery in the soul of state ORDER AND THE BEES First Line: Therefore doth heaven divide Last Line: To one consent, may work contrariously ORLANDO'S RHYMES First Line: Why should this a desert be? ORPHEUS First Line: I'm never merry when I hear sweet music Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus OTHELLO, SELS. Subject(s): Sea OUT AND INWARD BOUND First Line: All things that are PAINTING THE LILY First Line: Therefore, to be possessed with double pomp Last Line: Is wasteful and ridiculous excess PEACE First Line: Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths PEGASUS First Line: I saw young harry, with his beaver on PEONY: SHAME AND BASHFULNESS First Line: Lear, I prithee, daughter, do not make me mad Last Line: Nor tell tales of thee to high-judging jove. %mend when thou canst; be better at thy leisure Subject(s): Flowers PERICLES, SELS. PETRUCIO IS COMING, IN A NEW HAT AND AN OLD JERKIN Last Line: Here and there pieced with packthread POMPOSITY First Line: There are a sort of men whose visages PORTIA'S SPEECH TO BASSANIO First Line: You see me, lord bassanio, where I stand POTENCY OF LOVE First Line: Other slow arts entirely keep the brain POWER OF MUSIC First Line: For do but note a wild and wanton herd Last Line: Let no such man be trusted. Mark the music PRAYERS First Line: Hark, how I'll bribe you PRIMROSE PATH First Line: Do not, as some ungracious pastors do PROSPERO [OR, CLOUDS] First Line: You do look, my son, in a moved sort Subject(s): Country Life PUCK AND THE FAIRY, FR. A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM Poem Text First Line: Over hill, over dale Last Line: And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear. Variant Title(s): Fairy's Wander-song;fairyland Subject(s): Fairies; Elves PUT UP THY GOLD: GO ON -- HERE'S GOLD Last Line: Confounded be thyself PYTHAGORAS First Line: Thou almost mak'st me waver in my faith QUEEN KATHERINE First Line: Whilst our commission from rome is read, let silence be commanded RAVEN HIMSELF IS HOARSE Last Line: Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark %to cry, 'hold, hold!' READINESS IS ALL First Line: ...Not a whit, we defy augury; there's a special providence Last Line: To come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the %readiness is all Subject(s): Life Change Events REGRETS OF DRUNKENNESS First Line: What! Be you hurt, lieutenant? RENEW, RENEW! THE FIERCE POLYDAMAS Last Line: Bade him win all REPUTATION First Line: Good name in man and woman, dear my lord Last Line: And makes me poor indeed RICHARD II, SELS. First Line: John of gaunt: this royall throne of kings, this sceptred isle Last Line: How happy then were my ensuing death? ROMEO AND JULIET, SELS. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Mothers; Supernatural ROMEO AND JULIET: ACT 1, SCENE 5 First Line: Romeo. If I profane with my unworthiest hand Last Line: Romeo. Then move not while my prayer's effect I take. ROUGH SEAS, THAT SPARE NOT ANY MAN Subject(s): Sea RUMOR First Line: Open your ears! For which of you will stop Subject(s): Rumors SAFELY IN HARBOUR Last Line: And his great person perish SEALED IN VAIN SEVEN AGES OF MAN, FR. AS YOU LIKE IT Poem Text First Line: All the world's a stage Last Line: Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything. Variant Title(s): Life's Theatre Subject(s): Mankind; Nature; Human Race SHAME AT BEING CONVICTED OF A CRIME First Line: O my dread lord %I should be guiltier than my guiltiness Subject(s): Shame SHE THAT WAS EVER FAIR SHYLOCK FOR THE JEWS First Line: But tell us, do you hear whether antonio have had any loss at sea or no? SHYLOCK LENDS THE DUCATS First Line: Three thousand ducats, well SINGLE FAMISHED KISS First Line: Injurious time now with a robbers hast Last Line: Distasted with the salt of broken tears SLANDER First Line: Tis slander %whose edge is sharper than the sword SLEDBURN FAIR First Line: I'd oft heard tell of this sledburn fair Last Line: In coming to sledburn fair SLEEP First Line: We are such stuff SLEEP AND THE MONARCH First Line: How many thousand of my poorest subjects Last Line: Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown SOLILOQUY OF KING RICHARD III First Line: Give me another horse, bind up my wounds! SONG First Line: The fox, the ape, the humble-bee SONG OF THE CAMELS First Line: Not born to the forest are we Last Line: Our masters knelt down SONG, FR. MEASURE FOR MEASURE Poem Text First Line: Take, o, take those lips away Last Line: Bound in those icy chains by thee. Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness SONG, FR. THE TWO GENTELEM OF VERONA Poem Text First Line: Who is silvia [or, sylvia]? What is she Last Line: To her let us garlands bring. Subject(s): Love SONNET: 1 Poem Text First Line: From fairest creatures we desire increase Last Line: To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee. Variant Title(s): "from Fairest Creatures We Desire Increase""; SONNET: 10 Poem Text First Line: For shame deny that thou bear'st love to any Last Line: That beauty still may live in thine or thee. SONNET: 100 Poem Text First Line: Where art thou, muse, that thou forget'st so long Last Line: So thou prevent'st his scythe and crooked knife. Variant Title(s): The Spoils Of Time SONNET: 101 Poem Text First Line: O truant muse, what shall be thy amends Last Line: To make him seem long hence as he shows now. SONNET: 102 Poem Text First Line: My love is strengthened, though more weak in seeming Last Line: Because I would not dull you with my song. Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of SONNET: 103 Poem Text First Line: Alack, what poverty my muse brings forth Last Line: Your own glass shows you when you look in it. SONNET: 104 Poem Text Recitation First Line: To me, fair friend, you never can be old Last Line: Ere you were born was beauty's summer dead. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 105 Poem Text First Line: Let not my love be called idolatry Last Line: Which three till now never kept seat in one. Variant Title(s): "let Not My Love Be Called Idolatry""; SONNET: 106 Poem Text Recitation First Line: When in the chronicle of wasted time Last Line: Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise. Variant Title(s): "beauty Beyond Praise;to His Love;""when In The Chronicle Of Wasted Time""; Subject(s): Admiration; Beauty; Love SONNET: 107 Poem Text Recitation First Line: Not [or nor] mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Last Line: When tyrants' crests and tombs of brass are spent. Variant Title(s): I'll Live In This Poor Rime Subject(s): Freedom; Poetry & Poets; Liberty SONNET: 108 Poem Text First Line: What's in the brain, that ink may character Last Line: Where time and outward form would show it dead. SONNET: 109 Poem Text Recitation First Line: O, never say that I was false of heart Last Line: Save thou, my rose; in it thou art my all. Variant Title(s): The Unchangeable Subject(s): Love SONNET: 11 Poem Text First Line: As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou grow'st Last Line: Thou shouldst print more, not let that copy die. SONNET: 110 Poem Text Recitation First Line: Alas! 'tis true I have gone here and there Last Line: Even to thy pure and most most loving breast. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 111 Poem Text First Line: O for my sake do you with fortune chide Last Line: Even that your pity is enough to cure me. SONNET: 112 Poem Text First Line: Your love and pity doth the impression fill Last Line: That all the world besides methinks are dead. SONNET: 113 Poem Text First Line: Since I left you mine eye is in my mind Last Line: My most true mind thus makes mine eye untrue. SONNET: 114 Poem Text First Line: Or whether doth my mind, being crowned with you Last Line: That mine eye loves it and doth first begin. SONNET: 115 Poem Text First Line: Those lines that I before have writ do lie Last Line: To give full growth to that which still doth grow? SONNET: 116 Poem Text Recitation First Line: Let me not to the marriage of true minds / admit impediments Last Line: I never writ, nor no man ever loved. Variant Title(s): "love;love's Not Time's Fool;true Love;love Unalterable;the Marriage Of True Minds;""let Me Not To The Marriage Of True Minds""; Subject(s): Fidelity; Gays & Lesbians; Life Change Events; Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Religion; Faithfulness; Constancy; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Theology SONNET: 117 Poem Text First Line: Accuse me thus: that I have scanted all Last Line: The constancy and virtue of your love. SONNET: 118 Poem Text First Line: Like as to make our appetites more keen Last Line: Drugs poison him that so fell sick of you. SONNET: 119 Poem Text First Line: What potions have I drunk of siren tears Last Line: And gain by ill thrice more than I have spent. SONNET: 12 Poem Text Recitation First Line: When I do count the clock that tells the time Last Line: Save breed, to brave him when he takes thee hence. Variant Title(s): The Approach Of Age Subject(s): Aging; Holidays; New Year; Time SONNET: 120 Poem Text First Line: That you were once unkind befriends me now Last Line: Mine ransoms yours, and yours must ransom me. SONNET: 121 Poem Text First Line: Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed Last Line: All men are bad, and in their badness reign. SONNET: 122 Poem Text First Line: Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain Last Line: Were to import forgetfulness in me. SONNET: 123 Poem Text First Line: No, time, thou shalt not boast that I do change Last Line: I will be true, despite thy scythe and thee. SONNET: 124 Poem Text First Line: If my dear love were but the child of state Last Line: Which die for goodness, who have lived for crime. SONNET: 125 Poem Text First Line: Were't aught to me I bore the canopy Last Line: When most impeach'd stands least in thy control. SONNET: 126 Poem Text First Line: O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power Last Line: And her quietus is to render thee. SONNET: 127 Poem Text First Line: In the old age black was not counted fair Last Line: That every tongue says beauty should look so. Variant Title(s): "in The Old Age Black Was Not Counted Fair""; SONNET: 128 Poem Text Recitation First Line: How oft when thou art my music, music play'st Last Line: Give them thy fingers, me thy lips to kiss. Variant Title(s): "my Music;""how Oft, When Thou, My Music, Music Play'st""; Subject(s): Music & Musicians SONNET: 129 Poem Text Recitation First Line: The expense of spirit in a waste of shame / is lust in action Last Line: To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell. Variant Title(s): "past Reason Hunted;""th' Expense Of Spirit In A Waste Of Shame"";sonnet #129; Subject(s): Love; Lust SONNET: 13 Poem Text First Line: O! That you were yourself; but, love, you are Last Line: You had a father: let your son say so. Variant Title(s): "o, That You Were Yourself, But, Love, You Are""; SONNET: 130 Poem Text Recitation First Line: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun Last Line: As any she belied with false compare. Variant Title(s): "my Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like The Sun"";common Sense;shakespeare Refuses To Praise His Mistress; Subject(s): Beauty; Eyes; Love SONNET: 131 Poem Text First Line: Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art Last Line: And thence this slander, as I think, proceeds. SONNET: 132 Poem Text First Line: Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me Last Line: And all they foul that thy complexion lack. SONNET: 133 Poem Text First Line: Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan Last Line: Perforce am thine, and all that is in me. SONNET: 134 Poem Text First Line: So, now I have confessed that he is thine Last Line: He pays the whole, and yet am I not free. Variant Title(s): "so, Now I Have Confessed That He Is Thine""; SONNET: 135 Poem Text First Line: Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy 'will' Last Line: Think all but one, and me in that one 'will.' SONNET: 136 Poem Text First Line: If thy soul check thee that I come so near Last Line: And then thou lovest me, for my name is 'will.' SONNET: 137 Poem Text First Line: Thou blind fool, love, what dost thou to mine eyes Last Line: And to this false plague are they now transferr'd. SONNET: 138 Poem Text Recitation First Line: When my love swears that she is made of truth Last Line: And in our faults by lies we flatter'd be. Variant Title(s): "when My Love Swears That She Is Made Of Truth"";sonnet: 138a; Subject(s): Flattery; Love SONNET: 139 Poem Text First Line: O call me not to justify the wrong Last Line: Kill me outright with looks and rid my pain. SONNET: 14 Poem Text First Line: Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck Last Line: Thy end is truth's and beauty's doom and date. SONNET: 140 Poem Text First Line: Be wise as thou art cruel, do not press Last Line: Bear thine eyes straight, though thy proud heart go wide. SONNET: 141 Poem Text First Line: In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes Last Line: That she that makes me sin awards me pain. Variant Title(s): "in Faith, I Do Not Love Thee With Mine Eyes""; SONNET: 142 Poem Text First Line: Love is my sin and thy dear virtue hate Last Line: By self-example mayst thou be denied! SONNET: 143 Poem Text First Line: Lo! As a careful housewife runs to catch Last Line: If thou turn back, and my loud crying still. SONNET: 144 Poem Text Recitation First Line: Two loves I have of comfort and despair Last Line: Till my bad angel fire my good one out. Variant Title(s): "two Loves I Have, Of Comfort And Despair""; Subject(s): Comfort; Despair; Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 145 Poem Text First Line: Those lips that love's own hand did make Last Line: And saved my life, saying 'not you.' SONNET: 146 Poem Text Recitation First Line: Poor soul, the center of my sinful earth Last Line: And, death once dead, there's no more dying then. Variant Title(s): "the Outer Man And The Inner Man;immortality;soul And Body;to My Soul;the Death Of Death;""poor Soul, The Center Of My Sinful Earth""; Subject(s): Consolation; Immortality SONNET: 147 Poem Text First Line: My love is as a fever, longing still Last Line: Who art as black as hell, as dark as night. Variant Title(s): "my Love Is A Fever, Longing Still""; SONNET: 148 Poem Text Recitation First Line: O me, what eyes hath love put in my head Last Line: Lest eyes well-seeing thy foul faults should find! Variant Title(s): Blind Love Subject(s): Love - Complaints SONNET: 149 Poem Text First Line: Canst thou, o cruel, say I love thee not Last Line: Those that can see thou lovest, and I am blind. SONNET: 15 Poem Text First Line: When I consider every little thing that grows Last Line: As he takes from you, I engraft you new. SONNET: 150 Poem Text First Line: O, from what power hast thou this powerful might Last Line: More worthy I to be beloved of thee. SONNET: 151 Poem Text Recitation First Line: Love is too young to know what conscience is Last Line: Her 'love' for whose dear love I rise and fall. Variant Title(s): "love Is Too Young To Know What Conscience Is""; Subject(s): Conscience SONNET: 152 Poem Text First Line: In loving thee thou know'st I am forsworn Last Line: To swear against the truth so foul a lie! SONNET: 153 Poem Text First Line: Cupid laid by his brand and fell asleep Last Line: Where cupid got new fire -- my mistress' eyes. SONNET: 154 Poem Text First Line: The little love-god lying once asleep Last Line: Love's fire heats water, water cools not love. SONNET: 16 Poem Text First Line: But wherefore do not you a mightier way Last Line: And you must live, drawn by your own sweet skill. SONNET: 17 Poem Text Recitation First Line: Who will believe my verse in time to come Last Line: You should live twice,--in it and in my rhyme. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets SONNET: 18 Poem Text Recitation First Line: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Last Line: So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. Variant Title(s): "shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day?"";to His Love; Subject(s): Admiration; Art & Artists; Beauty; Change; Flowers; Immortality; Love; Roses; Summer; Transience; Impermanence SONNET: 19 Poem Text First Line: Devouring time, blunt thou the lion's paws Last Line: My love shall in my verse ever live young. Variant Title(s): "devouring Time, Blunt Thou The Lion's Paws""; SONNET: 2 Poem Text Recitation First Line: When forty winters shall besiege thy brow Last Line: And see thy blood warm when thou feel'st it cold. Subject(s): Aging; Love; Parents; Parenthood SONNET: 20 Poem Text Recitation First Line: A woman's face with nature's own hand painted Last Line: Mine be thy love and thy love's use their treasure. Variant Title(s): "a Woman's Face, With Nature's Own Hand Painted""; Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 21 Poem Text First Line: So is it not with me as with that muse Last Line: I will not praise that purpose not to sell. SONNET: 22 Poem Text First Line: My glass shall not persuade me I am old Last Line: Thou gavest me thine, not to give back again. SONNET: 23 Poem Text First Line: As an unperfect actor on the stage Last Line: To hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit. SONNET: 24 Poem Text Recitation First Line: Mine eye hath play'd the painter, and hath stell'd Last Line: They draw but what they see, know not the heart. Variant Title(s): "mine Eye Hath Played The Painter And Hath Stelled""; Subject(s): Friendship; Paintings & Painters SONNET: 25 Poem Text Recitation First Line: Let those who are in favour with their stars Last Line: Where I may not remove nor be removed. Subject(s): War SONNET: 26 Poem Text First Line: Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage Last Line: Till then not show my head where thou mayst prove me. SONNET: 27 Poem Text First Line: Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed Last Line: For thee and for myself no quiet find. Variant Title(s): "the Lover's Night Thoughts;""weary With Toil, I Haste Me To My Bed""; SONNET: 28 Poem Text First Line: How can I then return in happy plight SONNET: 29 Poem Text Recitation First Line: When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes Last Line: That then I scorn to change my state with kings. Variant Title(s): "amor Omnia Vincit;a Consolation;fortune And Men's Eyes;""when, In Disgrace With Fortune And Men's Eyes""; Subject(s): Desire; Friendship; Gays & Lesbians; Jealousy; Love; Religion; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Theology SONNET: 3 Poem Text Recitation First Line: Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest Last Line: Die single, and thine image dies with thee. Variant Title(s): "look In Thy Glass, And Tell The Face Thou Viewest""; Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SONNET: 30 Poem Text Recitation First Line: When to the sessions of sweet silent thought Last Line: All losses are restored, and sorrows end. Variant Title(s): Loses Restored;remembrance Subject(s): Friendship; Love; Memory; Past SONNET: 31 Poem Text First Line: Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts Last Line: And thou, all they, hast all the all of me. SONNET: 32 Poem Text First Line: If thou survive my well-contented day Last Line: Theirs for their style I'll read, his for his love.' Variant Title(s): Post Mortem SONNET: 33 Poem Text Recitation First Line: Full many a glorious morning have I seen Last Line: Suns of the world may stain when heaven's sun staineth. Variant Title(s): Bright Day - Grey Day Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Morning SONNET: 34 Poem Text First Line: Why didst thou promise a beauteous day Last Line: And they are rich and ransom all ill deeds. SONNET: 35 Poem Text Recitation First Line: No more be griev'd at that which thou hast done Last Line: To that sweet thief which sourly robs from me. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 36 Poem Text Recitation First Line: Let me confess that we two must be twain Last Line: As, thou being mine, mine is thy good report. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 37 Poem Text First Line: As a decrepit father takes delight Last Line: This wish I have; then ten times happy me! SONNET: 38 Poem Text First Line: How can my muse want subject to invent Last Line: The pain be mine, but thine shall be the praise. SONNET: 39 Poem Text First Line: O! How thy worth with manners may I sing Last Line: By praising him here who doth hence remain! SONNET: 4 Poem Text First Line: Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend Last Line: Which, used, lives th' executor to be. SONNET: 40 Poem Text First Line: Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all Last Line: Kill me with spites; yet we must not be foes. SONNET: 41 Poem Text First Line: Those petty wrongs that liberty commits Last Line: Thine, by thy beauty being false to me. SONNET: 42 Poem Text First Line: That thou hast her, it is not all my grief Last Line: Sweet flattery! Then she loves but me alone. SONNET: 43 Poem Text First Line: When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see Last Line: And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me. SONNET: 44 Poem Text First Line: If the dull substance of my flesh were thought Last Line: But heavy tears, badges of either's woe. SONNET: 45 Poem Text First Line: The other two, slight air and purging fire Last Line: I send them back again and straight grow sad. SONNET: 46 Poem Text First Line: Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war Last Line: And my heart's right thy inward love of heart. SONNET: 47 Poem Text First Line: Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took Last Line: Awakes my heart to heart's and eye's delight. SONNET: 48 Poem Text First Line: How careful was I, when I took my way Last Line: For truth proves thievish for a prize so dear. SONNET: 49 Poem Text First Line: Against that time (if ever that time come) Last Line: Since why to love I can allege no cause. SONNET: 5 Poem Text Recitation First Line: Those hours that with gentle work did frame Last Line: Lease but their show; their substance still lives sweet. Variant Title(s): Eternal Rhyme Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SONNET: 50 Poem Text First Line: How heavy do I journey on the way SONNET: 51 Poem Text First Line: Thus can my love excuse the slow offence Last Line: Towards thee I'll run, and give him leave to go. SONNET: 52 Poem Text First Line: So am I as the rich, whose blessed key Last Line: Being had, to triumph, being lack'd, to hope. Variant Title(s): Seldom Pleasure SONNET: 53 Poem Text Recitation First Line: What is your substance, whereof are you made Last Line: But you like none, none you, for constant heart. Variant Title(s): "what Is Your Substance, Whereof Are You Made""; Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Love; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 54 Poem Text Recitation First Line: Oh, how much doth beauty beauteous seem Last Line: When that shall fade, my verse distills your truth. Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses SONNET: 55 Poem Text Recitation First Line: Not marble nor the gilded monuments Last Line: You live in this, and dwell in lovers' eyes. Subject(s): Friendship; Gays & Lesbians; Poetry & Poets; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 56 Poem Text First Line: Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not said Last Line: Makes summer's welcome thrice more wish'd, more rare. Subject(s): Love SONNET: 57 Poem Text Recitation First Line: Being your slave, what should I do but tend Last Line: Though you do any thing, he thinks no ill. Variant Title(s): "absence;""being Your Slave, What Should I Do Not Tend""; Subject(s): Absence; Desire; Gays & Lesbians; Love; Separation; Isolation; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 58 Poem Text First Line: What god forbid, that made me first your slave Last Line: Not blame your pleasure, be it ill or well. SONNET: 59 Poem Text First Line: If there be nothing new, but that which is Last Line: To subjects worse have given admiring praise. SONNET: 6 Poem Text First Line: Then let not winter's ragged hand deface Last Line: To be death's conquest and make worms thine heir. SONNET: 60 Poem Text Recitation First Line: Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore Last Line: Praising thy worth, despite his cruel hand. Variant Title(s): "revolutions;""like As The Waves Make Towards The Pebbled Shore""; Subject(s): Aging; Gays & Lesbians; Time; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 61 Poem Text Recitation First Line: Is it thy will, thy image should keep open Last Line: From me far off, with others all too near. Subject(s): Love SONNET: 62 Poem Text First Line: Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye Last Line: Painting my age with beauty of thy days. SONNET: 63 Poem Text First Line: Against my love shall be, as I am now Last Line: And they shall live, and he in them still green. SONNET: 64 Poem Text Recitation First Line: When I have seen by time's fell hand defac'd Last Line: But weep to have that which it fears to lose. Variant Title(s): Time And Love Subject(s): Holidays; Love; New Year SONNET: 65 Poem Text Recitation First Line: Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea Last Line: That in black ink my love may still shine bright. Variant Title(s): "time And Love (2);""since Brass, Nor Stone, Nor Earth, Nor Boundless Sea""; Subject(s): Beauty; Language; Men; Time; Words; Vocabulary SONNET: 66 Poem Text Recitation First Line: Tired with all these, for restful death I cry Last Line: Save that, to die, I leave my love alone. Variant Title(s): The World's Way Subject(s): Death; Injustice; Love; Suicide; Dead, The SONNET: 67 Poem Text Recitation First Line: Ah wherefore with infection should he live Last Line: In days long since, before these last so bad. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 68 Poem Text First Line: Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn Last Line: To show false art what beauty was of yore. SONNET: 69 Poem Text First Line: Those parts of thee that the world's eye doth view Last Line: The solve is this, that thou dost common grow. SONNET: 7 Poem Text First Line: Lo, in the orient when the gracious light Last Line: Unlook'd on diest, unless thou get a son. SONNET: 70 Poem Text First Line: That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect Last Line: Then thou alone kingdoms of hearts shouldst owe. SONNET: 71 Poem Text Recitation First Line: No longer mourn for me when I am dead Last Line: And mock you with me after I am gone. Variant Title(s): "no Longer Mourn For Me When I Am Dead"";the Triumph Of Death; Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement SONNET: 72 Poem Text First Line: O, lest the world should task you to recite Last Line: And so should you, to love things nothing worth. SONNET: 73 Poem Text Recitation First Line: That time of year thou mayst in me behold Last Line: To love that well which thou must leave ere long. Variant Title(s): "that Time Of Year Thou Mayst In Me Behold"";where Late The Sweet Birds Sang;sonnet #73; Subject(s): Aging; Autumn; Conceit; Death; Labor & Laborers; Love - Marital; Old Age; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The; Work; Workers; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love SONNET: 74 Poem Text First Line: But be contented: when that fell arrest Last Line: And that is this, and this with thee remains. SONNET: 75 Poem Text First Line: So are you to my thoughts as food to life Last Line: Or gluttoning on all, or all away. SONNET: 76 Poem Text First Line: Why is my verse so barren of new pride Last Line: So is my love still telling what is told. SONNET: 77 Poem Text First Line: Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear Last Line: Shall profit thee and much enrich thy book. SONNET: 78 Poem Text Recitation First Line: So oft I have invoked thee for my muse Last Line: As high as learning my rude ignorance. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets SONNET: 79 Poem Text First Line: Whilest I alone did call upon thy aid Last Line: Since what he owes thee thou thyself dost pay. SONNET: 8 Poem Text Recitation First Line: Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly? Last Line: Sings this to thee: 'thou single wilt prove none.' Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Music & Musicians; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SONNET: 80 Poem Text First Line: O how I faint when I of you do write Last Line: The worst was this; my love was my decay. SONNET: 81 Poem Text First Line: Or shall I live your epitaph to make Last Line: Where breath most breathes, even in the mouths of men. SONNET: 82 Poem Text First Line: I grant thou were not married to my muse Last Line: Where cheeks need blood; in thee it is abused. SONNET: 83 Poem Text First Line: I never saw that you did painting need Last Line: Than both your poets can in praise devise. SONNET: 84 Poem Text First Line: Who is it that says most, which can say more Last Line: Being fond on praise, which makes your praises worse. SONNET: 85 Poem Text First Line: My tongue-tied muse in manners holds her still Last Line: Me for my dumb thoughts, speaking in effect. SONNET: 86 Poem Text Recitation First Line: Was it the proud full sail of his great verse Last Line: Then lack'd I matter; that enfeebled mine. Subject(s): Chapman, George (1559-1634) SONNET: 87 Poem Text Recitation First Line: Farewell! Thou art too dear for my possessing Last Line: In sleep a king, but, waking, no such matter. Subject(s): Absence; Gays & Lesbians; Loss; Love; Separation; Isolation; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 88 Poem Text First Line: When thou shalt be disposed to set me light Last Line: That for thy right myself will bear all wrong. SONNET: 89 Poem Text First Line: Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault Last Line: For I must ne'er love him whom thou dost hate. SONNET: 9 Poem Text Recitation First Line: Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye Last Line: That on himself such murderous shame commits. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SONNET: 90 Poem Text First Line: Then hate me when thou wilt, if ever, now Last Line: Compared with loss of thee will not seem so. Variant Title(s): The Spight Of Fortune SONNET: 91 Poem Text First Line: Some glory in their birth, some in their skill Last Line: All this away and me most wretched make. Variant Title(s): Wealth SONNET: 92 Poem Text First Line: But do thy worst to steal thyself away Last Line: Thou mayst be false, and yet I know it not. SONNET: 93 Poem Text First Line: So shall I live, supposing thou art true Last Line: If thy sweet virtue answer not thy show! SONNET: 94 Poem Text Recitation First Line: They that have power to hurt, and will do none Last Line: Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds. Variant Title(s): "the Life Without Passion;""they That Have Pow'r To Hut And Will Do None""; Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Hypocrisy; Sin; Villains In Literature; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 95 Poem Text First Line: How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame Last Line: The hardest knife ill-used doth lose his edge. SONNET: 96 Poem Text First Line: Some say thy fault is youth, some wantonness Last Line: As, thou being mine, mine is thy good report. Subject(s): Youth SONNET: 97 Poem Text Recitation First Line: How like a winter hath my absence been Last Line: That leaves look pale, dreading the winter's near. Subject(s): Absence; Love; Winter; Separation; Isolation SONNET: 98 Poem Text Recitation First Line: From you have I been absent in the spring Last Line: As with your shadow I with these did play: Variant Title(s): The Garden Of Love;absent;no Spring Without The Beloved Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation SONNET: 99 Poem Text Recitation First Line: The forward violet thus did I chide Last Line: But sweet or color it had stolen from thee. Subject(s): Admiration SONNETS (1-154, COMPLETE) SPITE OF CORMORANT DEVOURING TIME STAR DANCED Last Line: And under that %was I born Subject(s): Birthdays STEPHANO'S SONG, FR. THE TEMPEST Poem Text First Line: The master, the swabber, the boatswain and I Last Line: Then, to sea, boys, and let her go hang! Variant Title(s): A Sea Song;song Subject(s): Sea; Ocean STOOL BALL First Line: Now milkmaids' pails are deckt with flowers Last Line: Wherewith they harmless pastime make SUNSET CLOUDS First Line: Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish Subject(s): Country Life SUPPOSE First Line: If all the world were playing holidays SUSPICION First Line: Let me have men about me that are fat SWAGGER First Line: I'll hold thee any wager SWAN First Line: Let music sound while he doth make his choice SWEAREST THOU, UNGRACIOUS BOY? Last Line: Banish plump jack, and banish all the world %I do, I will TAMING OF THE SHREW, SELS. TEMPEST, SELS. Subject(s): Country Life; Death; Love; Sea TEMPEST, SELS. First Line: Prospero: you doe looke (my son) in a mov'd sort Last Line: Ferdinand and miranda: we wish your peace TEMPLE-HAUNTING MARTLET First Line: This guest of summer Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators TERRIBLE CHILD-BED HAST THOU HAD, MY DEAR Last Line: Lying with simple shells THE COURSE OF TRUE LOVE, FR. A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM Poem Text First Line: For aught that ever I could read Last Line: So quick bright things come to confusion. Variant Title(s): Reading Subject(s): Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness THE DIRGE [FOR FIDELE], FR. CYMBELINE Poem Text First Line: Fear no more the heat o' the sun Last Line: And renowned be thy grave! Variant Title(s): Dirge Of Imogen Subject(s): Death; Mortality; Mourning; Time; Transience; Dead, The; Bereavement; Impermanence THE FAIRIES' LULLABY, FR. A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM Poem Text First Line: Come, now a roundel and a fairy song Last Line: [exeunt fairies. Titania sleeps.] Subject(s): Fairies; Elves THE MURDER, FR. MACBETH Poem Text First Line: That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold Last Line: Couldst. Variant Title(s): The Murderers Grew Tired And Rested Under The Trees Subject(s): Murder THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM Poem Text First Line: When my love swears that she is made of truth Last Line: To hear her secrets so bewrayed. THE PHOENIX AND THE TURTLE Poem Text First Line: Let the bird of loudest lay Last Line: For these dead birds, sigh a prayer. Subject(s): Doves; Legends; Love; Phoenix (mythical Bird); Wedding Song; Epithalamium THE RAPE OF LUCRECE Poem Text First Line: From the besieged ardea all in post Last Line: To tarquin's everlasting banishment. THERE IS AN OLD TALE GOES THAT HERNE THE HUNTER Last Line: Disguis'd, like herne, with huge horns on his head Subject(s): Environment; Trees THERE'S A DIVINITY First Line: Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting Subject(s): Faith THESE LATE ECLIPSES IN THE SUN AND MOON PORTEND NO GOOD Last Line: Follow us disquietly to our graves THESE THREE Last Line: The mortal bugs o' the field THESE VIOLENT DELIGHTS HAVE VIOLENT ENDS THIS CASTLE HATH A PLEASANT SEAT Last Line: The air is delicate THIS DOUBLE WORSHIP Last Line: For the ill which doth control't THIS IS THE EXCELLENT FOPPERY OF THE WORLD Last Line: Fermament twinkled on my bastardizing THOU HAST CAST AWAY THYSELF, BEING LIKE THYSELF Last Line: Answer mere nature; bid them flatter thee THOU, NATURE, ART MY GODDESS; TO THY LAW Last Line: Now, gods, stand up for bastards THREATENING First Line: If thou but frown on me, or stir thy foot THY LIFE DID MANIFEST THOU LOV'DST ME NOT Last Line: Peopled with wolves, thy old inhabitants TIMON OF ATHENS, SELS. TITANIA'S BOWER, FR. A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM Poem Text First Line: I know a bank where the wild thyme blows Last Line: And look thou meet me ere the first cock crow. Variant Title(s): The Violet Bank Subject(s): Spring TITUS ANDRONICUS, SELS. First Line: Victorious titus, rue the tears I shed Subject(s): Mothers TRIAL OF QUEEN KATHARINE First Line: Sir, I desire you, do me right and justice Variant Title(s): Queen Katharine's Appea TRIAL SCENE First Line: Give me your hand. Came you from old bellario? TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, SELS. TWELFTH NIGHT, SELS. TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA, SELS. TWO NOBLE KINSMEN, SELS. USES OF ILL SUCCESS First Line: The ample proposition that hope makes VALIANT REDRESS First Line: Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss Subject(s): Courage VALOR First Line: In the reproofs of chance Subject(s): Courage VALOUR First Line: It is held %that valour is the chiefest virtue, and Subject(s): Courage VENUS AND ADONIS Poem Text First Line: Even as the sun with purple-colored face Last Line: Means to immure herself and not be seen. Subject(s): Adonis; Animals; Birds; Horses; Larks; Mythology - Classical; Skylarks VENUS SPEAKS TO ADONIS First Line: Thou hadst been gone, quoth she sweet boy Subject(s): Animals VIOLET: MODESTY First Line: For hamlet, and the trifling of his favour Last Line: The perfume and suppliance of a minute; %no more Subject(s): Flowers VIRTUE! A FIG! 'TIS IN OURSELVES THAT WE ARE THUS, OR THUS Last Line: Whereof I take this that you call love to be a sect or scion VISION First Line: How do's your grace? Last Line: A queen, and a daughter to a king enter me. %I can no more VISION OF MAC CONGLINNE First Line: A vision that appeared to me Last Line: His fleshfork on his back WAS THE HOPE DRUNK Last Line: And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you %have done to this WE HAVE STRICT STATUTES AND MOST BITING LAWS Last Line: The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart %goes all decorum WELCOME YULE First Line: Wolcum be thu, hevene kyng Last Line: Wolcum alle another yer %wolcum yol WELCOME! / A CURSE BEGIN AT THE VERY ROOT OF HIS HEART WELL, SAY THERE IS NO KINGDOM THEN FOR RICHARD Last Line: Tut! Were it further off, I'll pluck it down WHAT I DO STARE, SEE HOW THE SUBJECT QUAKES Last Line: Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination WHAT NEED I BE SO FORWARD WITH HIM THAT CALLS NOT ON ME? Last Line: And so ends my catechism WHAT THREE THINGS DOES DRINK ESPECIALLY PROVOKE? Last Line: Giving him the lie, leaves him WHAT! ARE MEN MAD? HATH NATURE GIVEN THEM EYES Last Line: Longs after for the garbage WHEN A MAN'S SERVANT SHALL PLAY THE CUR WITH HIM Last Line: Didst thou ever see me do such a trick? WHEN HE SHALL HEAR SHE DIED UPON HIS WORD WHEN MOST, I SAY, MINE EYES BE BLESSED MADE Subject(s): Sleep WHEN THOU HAPLY SEEST WHERE THINK'ST THOU HE IS NOW? STANDS HE, OR SITS HE Last Line: With looking on his life WHERE'S THE KING Last Line: And bids what will take all WHO GIVES ANYTHING TO POOR TOM? Last Line: Beware my follower. Peace. Smulkin! Peace, thou fiend WHY, THOU WERT BETTER IN THY GRAVE Last Line: Answer mere nature; bid them flatter thee WIDDECOMBE FAIR First Line: Tom pearse. Tom pearse, lend me your gray mare Last Line: Old uncle tom cobley and all WINTER'S TALE, SELS. WINTER'S TALE: PRIMROSE: EARLY YOUTH First Line: Now, my fairest friend Last Line: Most incident to maids Subject(s): Flowers WINTER, FR. LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST Poem Text First Line: When icicles hang by the wall Last Line: While greasy joan doth keel the pot. Variant Title(s): Tu-whit To-who Subject(s): Winter WISDOM AND GOODNESS TO THE VILE SEEM VILE Last Line: Like monsters of the deep WITCHES' MEETING First Line: When shall we three meet again WOUNDED STAG First Line: Come, shall we go and kill us venison YOU COMMON CRY OF CURS! WHOSE BREATH I HATE Last Line: There is a world elsewhere YOUNG FRIENDS, FR. A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM Poem Text First Line: O, is all forgot? Last Line: It is not friendly, 't is not maidenly. Subject(s): Friendship Shakespeare, William G. Alternate Author Name(s): S., W. G. 2 poems available by this author REFUGEES First Line: Past the marching men, where the great road runs Subject(s): World War I THE CATHEDRAL Poem Text First Line: Hope and mirth are gone. Beauty is departed Last Line: Forgiving, praying, singing, feeling sorry. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; First World War |
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