The Sonnets

A 1609 collection of 154 lyric poems by William Shakespeare, written in sonnet form. The opening poems urge a beautiful young man to marry and have children so that his beauty and memory survive through posterity against time and decay.

Public domain in the US. From Project Gutenberg.

Topic

Historical and Classical Fiction›Classic poetry›British and Irish poetry before 1780›Tudor and Elizabethan poetry, 1500 to 1603

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Adults›Historical and Classical Fiction›Classic poetry›British and Irish poetry before 1780