Shakespeare, William

Shakespeare, William (1564 - 1616)

Index to poems
  1. A Midsummer Night's Dream (excerpts): Lovers and mad men have such seething brains
  2. Shakespeare's Sonnets: A woman's face with nature's own hand painted
  3. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Accuse me thus, that I have scanted all
  4. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Against my love shall be as I am now
  5. All's Well that Ends Well (excerpts): Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie
  6. Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun
  7. Full Fadom Fiue Thy Father Lies
  8. Hamlet (excerpts): To be or not to be, that is the question
  9. Hearke, Hearke, the Larke at Heauens Gate Sings
  10. Macbeth (excerpts): Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
  11. O Mistres Mine Where are you Roming?
  12. Orpheus with his Lute Made Trees
  13. Richard II (excerpts): I have been studying how to compare
  14. Richard II (excerpts): Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs
  15. Richard II (excerpts): Oh, who can hold a fire in his hand
  16. Richard II (excerpts): This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle
  17. Romeo and Juliet (excerpts): Care keeps his watch in every old man’s eye
  18. Romeo and Juliet (excerpts): O then I see Queen Mab hath been with you
  19. Romeo and Juliet (excerpts): The earth that’s Nature’s mother is her tomb
  20. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Against that time (if ever that time come)
  21. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Ah, wherefore with infection should he live
  22. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Alack, what poverty my muse brings forth
  23. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Alas 'tis true, I have gone here and there
  24. Shakespeare's Sonnets: As a decrepit father takes delight
  25. Shakespeare's Sonnets: As an unperfect actor on the stage
  26. Shakespeare's Sonnets: As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou grow'st
  27. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Be wise as thou art cruel, do not press
  28. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Being your slave, what should I do but tend
  29. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan
  30. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took
  31. Shakespeare's Sonnets: But be contented when that fell arrest
  32. Shakespeare's Sonnets: But do thy worst to steal thy self away
  33. Shakespeare's Sonnets: But wherefore do not you a mightier way
  34. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Canst thou, O cruel, say I love thee not
  35. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Cupid laid by his brand and fell asleep,
  36. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Devouring time, blunt thou the lion's paws
  37. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Farewell, thou art too dear for my possessing
  38. Shakespeare's Sonnets: For shame deny that thou bear'st love to any
  39. Shakespeare's Sonnets: From fairest creatures we desire increase
  40. Shakespeare's Sonnets: From fairest creatures we desire increase
  41. Shakespeare's Sonnets: From you have I been absent in the spring
  42. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Full many a glorious morning have I seen
  43. Shakespeare's Sonnets: How can I then return in happy plight
  44. Shakespeare's Sonnets: How can my muse want subject to invent
  45. Shakespeare's Sonnets: How careful was I when I took my way
  46. Shakespeare's Sonnets: How heavy do I journey on the way
  47. Shakespeare's Sonnets: How like a winter hath my absence been
  48. Shakespeare's Sonnets: How oft when thou, my music, music play'st
  49. Shakespeare's Sonnets: How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame
  50. Shakespeare's Sonnets: I grant thou wert not married to my muse
  51. Shakespeare's Sonnets: I never saw that you did painting need
  52. Shakespeare's Sonnets: If my dear love were but the child of state
  53. Shakespeare's Sonnets: If the dull substance of my flesh were thought
  54. Shakespeare's Sonnets: If there be nothing new, but that which is
  55. Shakespeare's Sonnets: If thou survive my well-contented day
  56. Shakespeare's Sonnets: If thy soul check thee that I come so near
  57. Shakespeare's Sonnets: In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes
  58. Shakespeare's Sonnets: In loving thee thou know'st I am forsworn
  59. Shakespeare's Sonnets: In the old age black was not counted fair
  60. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye
  61. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Is it thy will thy image should keep op'n
  62. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Let me confess that we two must be twain
  63. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Let me not to the marriage of true minds
  64. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Let not my love be call'd idolatry
  65. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Let those who are in favour with their stars
  66. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore
  67. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Like as to make our appetites more keen
  68. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Lo in the orient when the gracious light
  69. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Lo, as a careful housewife runs to catch
  70. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Look in thy glass and tell the face thou view'st
  71. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage
  72. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate
  73. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Love is too young to know what conscience is
  74. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war
  75. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stell'd
  76. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?
  77. Shakespeare's Sonnets: My glass shall not persuade me I am old
  78. Shakespeare's Sonnets: My love is as a fever longing still
  79. Shakespeare's Sonnets: My love is strength'ned, though more weak in seeming
  80. Shakespeare's Sonnets: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun
  81. Shakespeare's Sonnets: My tongue-tied muse in manners holds her still
  82. Shakespeare's Sonnets: No longer mourn for me when I am dead
  83. Shakespeare's Sonnets: No more be griev'd at that which thou hast done
  84. Shakespeare's Sonnets: No! Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change
  85. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck
  86. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
  87. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Not mine own fears nor the prophetic soul
  88. Shakespeare's Sonnets: O call not me to justify the wrong
  89. Shakespeare's Sonnets: O how I faint when I of you do write
  90. Shakespeare's Sonnets: O lest the world should task you to recite
  91. Shakespeare's Sonnets: O me! what eyes hath love put in my head
  92. Shakespeare's Sonnets: O never say that I was false of heart
  93. Shakespeare's Sonnets: O that you were your self, but love you are
  94. Shakespeare's Sonnets: O thou my lovely boy, who in thy pow'r
  95. Shakespeare's Sonnets: O, for my sake do you with fortune chide
  96. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Oh from what pow'r hast thou this pow'rful might
  97. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Oh how much more doth beauty beaut'ous seem
  98. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Oh how thy worth with manners may I sing
  99. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Oh truant muse, what shall be thy amends
  100. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Or I shall live your epitaph to make
  101. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Or whether doth my mind being crown'd with you
  102. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth
  103. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault
  104. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
  105. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye
  106. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea
  107. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind
  108. Shakespeare's Sonnets: So am I as the rich whose blessèd key
  109. Shakespeare's Sonnets: So are you to my thoughts as food to life
  110. Shakespeare's Sonnets: So is it not with me as with that muse
  111. Shakespeare's Sonnets: So now I have confess't that he is thine
  112. Shakespeare's Sonnets: So oft have I invok'd thee for my muse
  113. Shakespeare's Sonnets: So shall I live, supposing thou art true
  114. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Some glory in their birth, some in their skill
  115. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Some say thy fault is youth, some wantonness
  116. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Sweet love, renew thy force, be it not said
  117. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Take all my loves, my love, yea take them all
  118. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame
  119. Shakespeare's Sonnets: That God forbid that made me first your slave
  120. Shakespeare's Sonnets: That thou are blam'd shall not be thy defect
  121. Shakespeare's Sonnets: That thou hast her it is not all my grief
  122. Shakespeare's Sonnets: That time of year thou may'st in me behold
  123. Shakespeare's Sonnets: That you were once unkind be-friends me now
  124. Shakespeare's Sonnets: The forward violet thus did I chide
  125. Shakespeare's Sonnets: The little love-god lying once asleep
  126. Shakespeare's Sonnets: The other two, slight air and purging fire
  127. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Then hate me when thou wilt, if ever, now
  128. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Then let not winter's wragged hand deface
  129. Shakespeare's Sonnets: They that have pow'r to hurt and will do none
  130. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me
  131. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Those hours that with gentle work did frame
  132. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Those lines that I before have writ do lie
  133. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Those lips that love's own hand did make
  134. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Those parts of thee that the world's eye doth view
  135. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits
  136. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art
  137. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Thou blind fool love, what dost thou to mine eyes
  138. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Thus can my love excuse the slow offence
  139. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Thus is his cheek the map of days out-worn
  140. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Thy bosom is endearèd with all hearts
  141. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain
  142. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear
  143. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Tir'd with all these for restful death I cry
  144. Shakespeare's Sonnets: To me, fair friend, you never can be old
  145. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Two loves I have of comfort and despair
  146. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend
  147. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Was it the proud full sail of his great verse
  148. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed
  149. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Wer't ought to me I bore the canopy
  150. Shakespeare's Sonnets: What is your substance, whereof are you made
  151. Shakespeare's Sonnets: What potions have I drunk of siren tears
  152. Shakespeare's Sonnets: What's in the brain that ink may character
  153. Shakespeare's Sonnets: When forty winters shall besiege thy brow
  154. Shakespeare's Sonnets: When I consider every thing that grows
  155. Shakespeare's Sonnets: When I do count the clock that tells the time
  156. Shakespeare's Sonnets: When I have seen by time's fell hand defaced
  157. Shakespeare's Sonnets: When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes
  158. Shakespeare's Sonnets: When in the chronicle of wastèd time
  159. Shakespeare's Sonnets: When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see
  160. Shakespeare's Sonnets: When my love swears that she is made of truth
  161. Shakespeare's Sonnets: When thou shalt be disposed to set me light
  162. Shakespeare's Sonnets: When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
  163. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Where art thou, muse, that thou forget'st so long
  164. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Whil'st I alone did call upon thy aid
  165. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Who ever hath her wish, thou hast thy Will
  166. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Who is it that says most, which can say more
  167. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Who will believe my verse in time to come
  168. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Why did'st thou promise such a beaut'ous day
  169. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Why is my verse so barren of new pride?
  170. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Your love and pity doth th'impression fill
  171. Sonnet CVI: When in the Chronicle of Wasted Time
  172. Sonnet CVII: Not mine own Fears, nor the Prophetic Soul
  173. Sonnet CX: Alas, 'tis True I have Gone here and there
  174. Sonnet CXI: O, for my Sake do you with Fortune Chide
  175. Sonnet CXLVI: Poor Soul, the Centre of my Sinful Earth
  176. Sonnet CXVI: Let me not to the Marriage of True Minds
  177. Sonnet CXXIX: Th'expense of Spirit in a Waste of Shame
  178. Sonnet CXXX: My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing like the Sun
  179. Sonnet LIII: What is your Substance, whereof are you Made
  180. Sonnet LX: Like as the Waves Make towards the Pebbled Shore
  181. Sonnet LXIV: When I have Seen by Time's Fell Hand Defaced
  182. Sonnet LXVI: Tir'd with all these, for Restful Death
  183. Sonnet LXXI: No Longer Mourn for me when I am Dead
  184. Sonnet LXXIII: That Time of Year thou mayst in me Behold
  185. Sonnet XCIV: They that have Power to Hurt and will do None
  186. Sonnet XCVII: How like a Winter hath my Absence been
  187. Sonnet XIX: Devouring Time, Blunt thou the Lion's Paws
  188. Sonnet XV: When I Consider everything that Grows
  189. Sonnet XVIII: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?
  190. Sonnet XXIX: When in Disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eyes
  191. Sonnet XXV: Let those who are in Favour with their Stars
  192. Sonnet XXX: When to the Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought
  193. Sonnet XXXII: If thou Survive my Well-contented Day
  194. Sonnet XXXIII: Full many a Glorious Morning have I Seen
  195. Take, O Take those Lips Away
  196. The Merchant of Venice (excerpts): How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank
  197. The Phoenix and the Turtle
  198. Shakespeare's Sonnets: 'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed
  199. Troilus and Cressida (excerpts): The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre
  200. Under the Greenwood Tree
Biography
  • Holland, Peter. "Shakespeare, William (1564–1616)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004. Online ed. Ed. Lawrence Goldman. Jan. 2011.
  • Internet Shakespeare Editions. Ed. Michael Best. Victoria, British Columbia: University of Victoria, 1996-.
Given Name
William
Family Name
Shakespeare
Birth Date
April 26, 1564
Death Date
April 23, 1616
Nationality
English
Education
Religion
Honours
Occupations
  • Actor



  • Playwright



Literary Period
Tudor
Literary Movement
Unknown
Illness
Buried At
Stratford-upon-Avon, England
First RPO Edition
2011