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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 never say that I was false of heart,
 Though absence seemed my flame to qualify,
 As easy might I from my self depart,
 As from my soul which in thy breast doth lie:
                          That is my home of love, if I have ranged,
 Like him that travels I return again,
 Just to the time, not with the time exchanged,
 So that my self bring water for my stain,

                          Never believe though in my nature reigned,
 All frailties that besiege all kinds of blood,
 That it could so preposterously be stained,
 To leave for nothing all thy sum of good:
                          For nothing this wide universe I call,
 Save thou my rose, in it thou art my all.