To cloak offences with a cunning brow. 'They think not but that every eye can see The same disgrac...
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To dry the old oak's sap and cherish springs, To spoil antiquities of hammered steel And turn the ...
Or one encompassed with a winding maze That cannot tread the way out readily; So with herself is s...
His kindled duty kindled her mistrust, That two red fires in both their faces blazed; She thought ...
Those round clear pearls of his that move thy pity Are balls of quenchless fire to burn thy city. ...
Where shall I live now Lucrece is unlived? Thou wast not to this end from me derived. If children ...
1609 THE SONNETS by William Shakespeare 1 From fairest creatures we desire increase, That there...
But not to tell of good, or evil luck, Of plagues, of dearths, or seasons' quality, Nor can I fort...
Save that my soul's imaginary sight Presents thy shadow to my sightless view, Which like a jewel (...
And makes milch-kine yield blood, and shakes a chain In a most hideous and dreadful manner. You ha...
The mirth whereof so larded with my matter That neither, singly, can be manifested Without the sho...
Fairies use flow'rs for their charactery. Away, disperse; but till 'tis one o'clock, Our dance of ...
1609 THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM by William Shakespeare 1 When my love swears that she is made of tru...
Fare well I could not, for I supped with sorrow. Yet at my parting sweetly did she smile, In scorn...
Careless of thy sorrowing. Whilst as fickle Fortune smiled, Thou and I were both beguiled. Every ...