Category: Poems

Sonnet 55 is a poem composed by William Shakespeare Sonnet 55 Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme; But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmeared with sluttish time.When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars …

From The Rape Of Lucrece is a poem composed by William Shakespeare From The Rape Of Lucrece Her lily hand her rosy cheek lies under, Cozening the pillow of a lawful kiss; Who, therefore angry, seems to part in sunder, Swelling on either side to want his bliss; Between whose hills her head entombed is; …

Fear No More is a poem composed by William Shakespeare Fear No More Fear no more the heat o’ the sun; Nor the furious winter’s rages, Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone, and ta’en thy wages; Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney sweepers come to dust.Fear no more the frown …

Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer’s Day? is a poem composed by William Shakespeare. Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer’s Day? (Sonnet 18) Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too …

Dirge of the Three Queens is a poem composed by William Shakespeare Dirge of the Three Queens URNS and odours bring away! Vapours, sighs, darken the day! Our dole more deadly looks than dying; Balms and gums and heavy cheers, Sacred vials fill’d with tears, And clamours through the wild air flying!Come, all sad and …

Bridal Song is a poem composed by William Shakespeare Bridal Song ROSES, their sharp spines being gone, Not royal in their smells alone, But in their hue; Maiden pinks, of odour faint, Daisies smell-less, yet most quaint, And sweet thyme true;Primrose, firstborn child of Ver; Merry springtime’s harbinger, With her bells dim; Oxlips in their …

Lover’s Complaint is a poem composed by William Shakespeare Lover’s Complaint FROM off a hill whose concave womb reworded A plaintful story from a sistering vale, My spirits to attend this double voice accorded, And down I laid to list the sad-tuned tale; Ere long espied a fickle maid full pale, Tearing of papers, breaking …

A Fairy Song is a poem composed by William Shakespeare. A Fairy Song Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough brier, Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire! I do wander everywhere, Swifter than the moon’s sphere; And I serve the Fairy Queen, To dew her orbs upon the green; The cowslips tall her …

All the world’s a stage is a poem composed by Willliam Shakespeare. All the World’s a Stage All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant, …