Section: «Poems»

Verse (ancient Greek ὁ στίχος — row, structure), a term in versification used in several meanings: artistic speech organized by division into rhythmically commensurate segments; poetry in the narrow sense; in particular, it implies the properties of versification of a particular tradition ("antique verse", "Akhmatova's verse", etc.); a line of poetic text organized according to a certain rhythmic pattern ("My uncle of the most honest rules").

Sonnet 19: Devouring Time Blunt Thou The Lion's Paws

Devouring Time blunt thou the lion's paws,And make the earth devour her own sweet brood,Pluck the keen teeth from the fierce tiger's jaws,And burn..

© William Shakespeare

Sonnet 8: Music To Hear, Why Hear'st Thou Music Sadly?

Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy.Why lov'st thou that which thou receiv'st not gladly,Or..

© William Shakespeare

Sonnet 153: Cupid Laid By His Brand And Fell Asleep

Cupid laid by his brand and fell asleep,A maid of Dian's this advantage found,And his love-kindling fire did quickly steepIn a cold valley-fountain..

© William Shakespeare

Sonnet 111: O, For My Sake Do You With Fortune Chide

O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide,The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds,That did not better for my life provideThan public means which public..

© William Shakespeare

Sonnet 118: Like As To Make Our Appetite More Keen

Like as to make our appetite more keenWith eager compounds we our palate urge,As to prevent our maladies unseen,We sicken to shun sickness when we..

© William Shakespeare

Sonnet 119: What Potions Have I Drunk Of Siren Tears

What potions have I drunk of Siren tears,Distilled from limbecks foul as hell within,Applying fears to hopes, and hopes to fears,Still losing when I..

© William Shakespeare

Sonnet 114: Or Whether Doth My Mind, Being Crowned With You

Or whether doth my mind, being crowned with you,Drink up the monarch's plague, this flattery?Or whether shall I say mine eye saith true,And that your..

© William Shakespeare

Sonnet 94: They That Have Power To Hurt And Will Do None

They that have power to hurt and will do none,That do not do the thing, they most do show,Who, moving others, are themselves as stone,Unmovèd, cold..

© William Shakespeare

Sonnet 60: Like As The Waves Make Towards The Pebbled Shore

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,So do our minutes hasten to their end;Each changing place with that which goes before,In sequent..

© William Shakespeare

Sonnet 27: Weary With Toil, I Haste Me To My Bed

Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed,The dear respose for limbs with travel tirèd;But then begins a journey in my headTo work my mind, when body's..

© William Shakespeare

Sonnet 147: My Love Is As A Fever, Longing Still

My love is as a fever, longing stillFor that which longer nurseth the disease,Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill,Th' uncertain sickly..

© William Shakespeare

Sonnet 146: Poor Soul, The Centre Of My Sinful Earth

Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth,My sinful earth these rebel powers array,Why dost thou pine within and suffer dearth,Painting thy outward..

© William Shakespeare

Spring And Winter

WHEN daisies pied and violets blue, And lady-smocks all silver-white,And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight,The cuckoo..

© William Shakespeare

Sonnet 132: Thine Eyes I Love, And They, As Pitying Me

Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me,Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain,Have put on black, and loving mourners be,Looking with pretty..

© William Shakespeare

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

Farewell! Thou art too dear for my possessing,And like enough thou know'st thy estimate,The charter of thy worth gives thee releasing;My bonds in..

© William Shakespeare

When To The Sessions Of Sweet Silent Thought (Sonnet 30)

When to the sessions of sweet silent thoughtI summon up remembrance of things past,I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,And with old woes new..

© William Shakespeare

Sonnet Cxvi: Let Me Not To The Marriage Of True Minds

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..

© William Shakespeare

Sonnet 144: Two Loves I Have, Of Comfort And Despair

Two loves I have, of comfort and despair,Which like two spirits do suggest me still:The better angel is a man right fair,The worser spirit a woman..

© William Shakespeare

Sonnet 75: So Are You To My Thoughts As Food To Life

So are you to my thoughts as food to life,Or as sweet-seasoned showers are to the ground;And for the peace of you I hold such strifeAs 'twixt a miser..

© William Shakespeare

When That I Was And A Little Tiny Boy

When that I was and a little tiny boy,With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,A foolish thing was but a toy,For the rain it raineth every day.But when I..

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Sonnet 28: How Can I Then Return In Happy Plight

How can I then return in happy plightThat am debarred the benefit of rest?When day's oppression is not eased by night,But day by night, and night by..

© William Shakespeare

Sonnet 15: When I Consider Every Thing That Grows

When I consider every thing that growsHolds in perfection but a little moment.That this huge stage presenteth nought but showsWhereon the stars in..

© William Shakespeare

Witches Chant (From Macbeth)

Round about the couldron go:In the poisones entrails throw.Toad,that under cold stoneDays and nights has thirty-oneSweated venom sleeping got,Boil..

© William Shakespeare

Sonnet 10: For Shame, Deny That Thou Bear'st Love To Any

For shame, deny that thou bear'st love to anyWho for thy self art so unprovident.Grant, if thou wilt, thou art beloved of many,But that thou none..

© William Shakespeare

Sonnet 113: Since I Left You, Mine Eye Is In My Mind

Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind,And that which governs me to go aboutDoth part his function, and is partly blind,Seems seeing, but..

© William Shakespeare