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Shakespeare's 154 Sonnets (Completed )

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Shakespeare's Sonnets is the title of a collection of 154 sonnets by William Shakespeare, which covers themes such as the passage of time, love, beauty and mortality. The first 126 sonnets are addressed to a young man; the last 28 to a woman. The so...

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                          O that you were your self, but love you are
 No longer yours, than you your self here live,
 Against this coming end you should prepare,
 And your sweet semblance to some other give.

                          So should that beauty which you hold in lease
 Find no determination, then you were
 Your self again after your self's decease,
 When your sweet issue your sweet form should bear.
                          Who lets so fair a house fall to decay,
 Which husbandry in honour might uphold,
 Against the stormy gusts of winter's day
 And barren rage of death's eternal cold?
                          O none but unthrifts, dear my love you know,
 You had a father, let your son say so.