Poetry
Sonnet 10
The complete text of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 10 from the 1609 first edition, with early spelling and provenance.
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Poetry
Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
十四行诗第十八首：我可否把你比作夏日？A meditation on beauty, time, and poetry’s claim to preserve the beloved beyond summer and death.
Poetry
Sonnet 2
The complete text of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 2 from the 1609 first edition, with early spelling and provenance.
Poetry
Sonnet 3
Original text of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 3 from the 1609 first edition, with source information.
Poetry
Sonnet 30: When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
十四行诗第三十首：当静思开庭A meditation on memory as a legal reckoning in which old losses are counted again and friendship restores what grief consumed.
Poetry
Sonnet 4
Original text of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 4 from the 1609 first edition, with source information.
Poetry
Sonnet 5
Original text of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 5 from the 1609 first edition, with source information.
Poetry
Sonnet 6
The complete text of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 6 from the 1609 first edition, with early spelling and provenance.
Poetry
Sonnet 73: That time of year thou mayst in me behold
十四行诗第七十三首：你在我身上看见暮秋A meditation on ageing through late autumn, twilight, and dying fire, ending with love intensified by approaching loss.
Poetry
Sonnet 9
Original text of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 9 from the 1609 first edition, with source information.
Proverb
Soon crooks the tree that good gambrel will be.
A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.
Proverb
Soon ripe soon rotten.
A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.
Proverb
Spare to speak and spare to speed.
A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.
Proverb
Speak truth and shame the devil.
A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.
Proverb
Speech is silvern, silence is golden.
A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.
Proverb
Speir at Jock Thief if I be a leal man.
A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.
Poetry
Spring Morning
春晓In spring sleep, dawn arrives unnoticed; everywhere, I hear birds calling. Through the night came the sound of wind and rain— how many blossoms must have fallen?
Proverb
Standing pools gather filth.
A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.
Poetry
Stanzas
In a December night the tree and the brook are called happy because they cannot remember their green summer, while human beings, who writhe at past joy, must know and feel the change with nothing to heal it—a state the poem says was never said in rhyme.
Proverb
Steal the goose, and give the giblets in alms.
A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.
Proverb
Sticking disna gang by strength, but by the guiding o' the gully.
A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.
Proverb
Still waters are deep.
A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.
Proverb
Store is no sore.
A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.
Proverb
Stretch your arm no farther than your sleeve will reach.
A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.