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World poetry

Read poetry across languages and traditions, with authors, source editions and reviewed translations kept distinct.

Browse all published languages. Each work opens only an available, reviewed reading. 136 entries

Tang poetry 689World poetry 136Idioms 4Fables & stories 353Proverbs 667Maxims 8Book of Songs 97Song ci 5Yuan qu 4
William Shakespeare · 1609年初版

Sonnet 10

For shame deny that thou bear'st loue to any Who for thy selfe art so vnprouident

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Shakespeare’s Sonnets（1609初版）
William Shakespeare · 1609年初版

Sonnet 6

Then let not winters wragged hand deface, In thee thy summer ere thou be distil'd:

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Shakespeare’s Sonnets（1609初版）
William Shakespeare · 1609年初版

Sonnet 1

From fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beauties Rose might neuer die,

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William Shakespeare · 1609年初版

Sonnet 3

Looke in thy glasse and tell the face thou vewest, Now is the time that face should forme an other,

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William Shakespeare · 1609年初版

Sonnet 4

Vnthrifty louelinesse why dost thou spend, Vpon thy selfe thy beauties legacy?

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William Shakespeare · 1609年初版

Sonnet 5

Those howers that with gentle worke did frame, The louely gaze where euery eye doth dwell

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William Shakespeare · 1609年初版

Sonnet 9

Is it for feare to wet a widdowes eye, That thou consum'st thy selfe in single life?

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William Shakespeare · 1609年初版

Sonnet 2

When fortie Winters shall beseige thy brow, And digge deep trenches in thy beauties field,

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