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William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon".

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Sonnet 145:
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Sonnet 25: Let those who are in favour with their stars
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The Rape of Lucrece
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Not marble nor the guilded monuments (Sonnet 55)
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Sonnet 128: How oft, when thou, my music, music play'st
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Sonnet 146: Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth
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Sonnet 153: Cupid laid by his brand and fell asleep
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Sonnet 28: How can I then return in happy plight
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Sonnet 5: Those hours, that with gentle work did frame
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Sonnet 10: For shame, deny that thou bear'st love to any
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Sonnet 17: Who will believe my verse in time to come
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The Passionate Pilgrim
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Sonnet 38: How can my Muse want subject to invent
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Sonnet 148: O me! what eyes hath love put in my head
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Sonnet 44: If the dull substance of my flesh were thought
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Sonnet 47: Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took
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Sonnet 50: How heavy do I journey on the way
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Sonnet 2: When forty winters shall besiege thy brow
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Sonnet 35: No more be grieved at that which thou hast done
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Sonnet 143: Lo, as a careful huswife runs to catch
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Sonnet 49: Against that time, if ever that time come
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Sonnet 105: Let not my love be called idolatry
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Sonnet 20: A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted
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Sonnet 40: Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all
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Sonnet 64:
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