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Critical Analysis of Famous Poems by William Shakespeare

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  • A Fairy Song
  • A Lover's Complaint
  • A Madrigal
  • All The World's A Stage
  • Antony and Cleopatra, Act II, Scene II [The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne]
  • Aubade
  • Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind
  • Bridal Song
  • Dirge
  • Dirge Of The Three Queens
  • Fairy Land I
  • Fairy Land Ii
  • Fairy Land Iii
  • Fear No More
  • From The Rape Of Lucrece
  • From Venus And Adonis
  • Full Fathom Five
  • Hark! Hark! The Lark
  • Helen's Soliloqy (All's Well That Ends Well)
  • It Was A Lover And His Lass
  • Juliet's Soliloquy
  • Love
  • Macbeth, Act IV, Scene I
  • Not From The Stars Do I My Judgment Pluck (Sonnet 14)
  • Not Marble Nor The Guilded Monuments (Sonnet 55)
  • Now The Hungry Lion Roars
  • Now, My Co-Mates And Brothers In Exile
  • O Mistress Mine, Where Are You Roaming? (Twelfth Night, Act Ii, Scene Iii)
  • O Never Say That I Was False Of Heart
  • Orpheus
  • Orpheus With His Lute Made Trees
  • Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day? (Sonnet 18)
  • Sigh No More
  • Silvia
  • Some Say That Ever ‘Gainst That Season Comes (Hamlet, Act I, Scene I)
  • Sonet Liv
  • Song of the Witches: "Double, double toil and trouble"
  • Sonnet 100: Where Art Thou, Muse, That Thou Forget'st So Long
  • Sonnet 101: O Truant Muse, What Shall Be Thy Amends
  • Sonnet 102: My Love Is Strengthened, Though More Weak In Seeming
  • Sonnet 103: Alack, What Poverty My Muse Brings Forth
  • Sonnet 104: To Me, Fair Friend, You Never Can Be Old
  • Sonnet 105: Let Not My Love Be Called Idolatry
  • Sonnet 106: When In The Chronicle Of Wasted Time
  • Sonnet 107:
  • Sonnet 107: Not Mine Own Fears, Nor The Prophetic Soul
  • Sonnet 108: What's In The Brain That Ink May Character
  • Sonnet 109: O, Never Say That I Was False Of Heart
  • Sonnet 10: For Shame, Deny That Thou Bear'st Love To Any
  • Sonnet 110: Alas, 'Tis True, I Have Gone Here And There
  • Sonnet 111: O, For My Sake Do You With Fortune Chide
  • Sonnet 112: Your Love And Pity Doth Th' Impression Fill
  • Sonnet 113: Since I Left You, Mine Eye Is In My Mind
  • Sonnet 114: Or Whether Doth My Mind, Being Crowned With You
  • Sonnet 115: Those Lines That I Before Have Writ Do Lie
  • Sonnet 116: Let Me Not To The Marriage Of True Minds
  • Sonnet 118: Like As To Make Our Appetite More Keen
  • Sonnet 119: What Potions Have I Drunk Of Siren Tears
  • Sonnet 11: As Fast As Thou Shalt Wane, So Fast Thou Grow'st
  • Sonnet 120: That You Were Once Unkind Befriends Me Now
  • Sonnet 121:Tis Better To Be Vile Than Vile Esteemed
  • Sonnet 122: Thy Gift, Thy Tables, Are Within My Brain
  • Sonnet 123: No, Time, Thou Shalt Not Boast That I Do Change
  • Sonnet 125: Were'T Aught To Me I Bore The Canopy
  • Sonnet 126: O Thou, My Lovely Boy, Who In Thy Power
  • Sonnet 128: How Oft, When Thou, My Music, Music Play'st
  • Sonnet 129: Th' Expense Of Spirit In A Waste Of Shame
  • Sonnet 12: When I Do Count The Clock That Tells The Time
  • Sonnet 130: My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like The Sun
  • Sonnet 131: Thou Art As Tyrannous, So As Thou Art
  • Sonnet 132: Thine Eyes I Love, And They, As Pitying Me
  • Sonnet 133: Beshrew That Heart That Makes My Heart To Groan
  • Sonnet 134: So, Now I Have Confessed That He Is Thine
  • Sonnet 135: Whoever Hath Her Wish, Thou Hast Thy Will
  • Sonnet 136: If Thy Soul Check Thee That I Come So Near
  • Sonnet 137: Thou Blind Fool, Love, What Dost Thou To Mine Eyes
  • Sonnet 138: When My Love Swears That She Is Made Of Truth
  • Sonnet 139: O, Call Not Me To Justify The Wrong
  • Sonnet 13: O, That You Were Your Self! But, Love, You Are
  • Sonnet 140: Be Wise As Thou Art Cruel; Do Not Press
  • Sonnet 141: In Faith, I Do Not Love Thee With Mine Eyes
  • Sonnet 142: Love Is My Sin, And Thy Dear Virtue Hate
  • Sonnet 143: Lo, As A Careful Huswife Runs To Catch
  • Sonnet 144: Two Loves I Have, Of Comfort And Despair
  • Sonnet 145:
  • Sonnet 145: Those Lips That Love's Own Hand Did Make
  • Sonnet 146:
  • Sonnet 146: Poor Soul, The Centre Of My Sinful Earth
  • Sonnet 147: My Love Is As A Fever, Longing Still
  • Sonnet 148: O Me! What Eyes Hath Love Put In My Head
  • Sonnet 149: Canst Thou, O Cruel, Say I Love Thee Not
  • Sonnet 14: Not From The Stars Do I My Judgement Pluck
  • Sonnet 14: “not From The Stars Do I My Judgement Pluck…”
  • Sonnet 150: O From What Power Hast Thou This Powerful Might
  • Sonnet 151: Love Is Too Young To Know What Conscience Is
  • Sonnet 152: In Loving Thee Thou Know'st I Am Forsworn
  • Sonnet 153: Cupid Laid By His Brand And Fell Asleep
  • Sonnet 154: The Little Love-God Lying Once Asleep
  • Sonnet 15:
  • Sonnet 15: When I Consider Every Thing That Grows
  • Sonnet 16: But Wherefore Do Not You A Mightier Way
  • Sonnet 17: Who Will Believe My Verse In Time To Come
  • Sonnet 18: Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day?
  • Sonnet 19: Devouring Time Blunt Thou The Lion's Paws
  • Sonnet 1:
  • Sonnet 1: From Fairest Creatures We Desire Increase
  • Sonnet 20: A Woman's Face With Nature's Own Hand Painted
  • Sonnet 21: So Is It Not With Me As With That Muse
  • Sonnet 22: My Glass Shall Not Persuade Me I Am Old
  • Sonnet 23: As An Unperfect Actor On The Stage
  • Sonnet 24: Mine Eye Hath Played The Painter And Hath Stelled
  • Sonnet 24: “mine Eye Hath Played The Painter And Hath Stelled…”
  • Sonnet 25: Let Those Who Are In Favour With Their Stars
  • Sonnet 26: Lord Of My Love, To Whom In Vassalage…
  • Sonnet 27: Weary With Toil, I Haste Me To My Bed
  • Sonnet 28: How Can I Then Return In Happy Plight
  • Sonnet 2:
  • Sonnet 2: When Forty Winters Shall Besiege Thy Brow
  • Sonnet 30: When To The Sessions Of Sweet Silent Thought
  • Sonnet 31: Thy Bosom Is EndearÈD With All Hearts
  • Sonnet 32: If Thou Survive My Well-Contented Day
  • Sonnet 33: Full Many A Glorious Morning Have I Seen
  • Sonnet 34: Why Didst Thou Promise Such A Beauteous Day
  • Sonnet 35: No More Be Grieved At That Which Thou Hast Done
  • Sonnet 36: Let Me Confess That We Two Must Be Twain
  • Sonnet 37: As A Decrepit Father Takes Delight
  • Sonnet 38:
  • Sonnet 38: How Can My Muse Want Subject To Invent
  • Sonnet 39: O, How Thy Worth With Manners May I Sing
  • Sonnet 40: Take All My Loves, My Love, Yea, Take Them All
  • Sonnet 41: Those Pretty Wrongs That Liberty Commits
  • Sonnet 42: That Thou Hast Her, It Is Not All My Grief
  • Sonnet 43: When Most I Wink, Then Do Mine Eyes Best See
  • Sonnet 44: If The Dull Substance Of My Flesh Were Thought
  • Sonnet 45: The Other Two, Slight Air And Purging Fire
  • Sonnet 46: Mine Eye And Heart Are At A Mortal War
  • Sonnet 47: Betwixt Mine Eye And Heart A League Is Took
  • Sonnet 48: How Careful Was I, When I Took My Way
  • Sonnet 49: Against That Time, If Ever That Time Come
  • Sonnet 4: Unthrifty Loveliness, Why Dost Thou Spend
  • Sonnet 50: How Heavy Do I Journey On The Way
  • Sonnet 51: Thus Can My Love Excuse The Slow Offence
  • Sonnet 52: So Am I As The Rich Whose BlessÈD Key
  • Sonnet 53: What Is Your Substance, Whereof Are You Made
  • Sonnet 54: O, How Much More Doth Beauty Beauteous Seem
  • Sonnet 55: Not Marble, Nor The Gilded Monuments
  • Sonnet 56: Sweet Love, Renew Thy Force, Be It Not Said
  • Sonnet 57: Being Your Slave, What Should I Do But Tend
  • Sonnet 58: That God Forbid, That Made Me First Your Slave
  • Sonnet 59: If There Be Nothing New, But That Which Is
  • Sonnet 5: Those Hours, That With Gentle Work Did Frame
  • Sonnet 60: Like As The Waves Make Towards The Pebbled Shore
  • Sonnet 61: Is It Thy Will Thy Image Should Keep Open
  • Sonnet 62: Sin Of Self-Love Possesseth All Mine Eye
  • Sonnet 63: Against My Love Shall Be As I Am Now
  • Sonnet 63: Against My Love Shall Be, As I Am Now
  • Sonnet 64: When I Have Seen By Time's Fell Hand Defaced
  • Sonnet 65: Since Brass, Nor Stone, Nor Earth, Nor Boundless Sea
  • Sonnet 66: Tired With All These, For Restful Death I Cry
  • Sonnet 67: Ah, Wherefore With Infection Should He Live
  • Sonnet 69: Those Parts Of Thee That The World's Eye Doth View
  • Sonnet 6: Then Let Not Winter's Ragged Hand Deface
  • Sonnet 70: That Thou Art Blamed Shall Not Be Thy Defect
  • Sonnet 70:That Thou Art Blamed Shall Not Be Thy Defect…
  • Sonnet 71: No Longer Mourn For Me When I Am Dead
  • Sonnet 72: O, Lest The World Should Task You To Recite
  • Sonnet 73: That Time Of Year Thou Mayst In Me Behold
  • Sonnet 74: But Be Contented When That Fell Arrest
  • Sonnet 75: So Are You To My Thoughts As Food To Life
  • Sonnet 76: Why Is My Verse So Barren Of New Pride?
  • Sonnet 77: Thy Glass Will Show Thee How Thy Beauties Wear
  • Sonnet 78: So Oft Have I Invoked Thee For My Muse
  • Sonnet 79: Whilst I Alone Did Call Upon Thy Aid
  • Sonnet 7: Lo, In The Orient When The Gracious Light
  • Sonnet 7: “lo In The Orient When The Gracious Light…”
  • Sonnet 80: O, How I Faint When I Of You Do Write
  • Sonnet 81: Or I Shall Live Your Epitaph To Make
  • Sonnet 82: I Grant Thou Wert Not Married To My Muse
  • Sonnet 83: I Never Saw That You Did Painting Need
  • Sonnet 84: Who Is It That Says Most, Which Can Say More
  • Sonnet 84: Who Is It That Says Most, Which Can Say More
  • Sonnet 85: My Tongue-Tied Muse In Manners Holds Her Still
  • Sonnet 86: Was It The Proud Full Sail Of His Great Verse
  • Sonnet 87: Farewell! Thou Art Too Dear For My Possessing
  • Sonnet 88: When Thou Shalt Be Disposed To Set Me Light
  • Sonnet 89: Say That Thou Didst Forsake Me For Some Fault
  • Sonnet 8: Music To Hear, Why Hear'st Thou Music Sadly?
  • Sonnet 90: Then Hate Me When Thou Wilt; If Ever, Now
  • Sonnet 91: Some Glory In Their Birth, Some In Their Skill
  • Sonnet 92: But Do Thy Worst To Steal Thyself Away
  • Sonnet 93: So Shall I Live, Supposing Thou Art True
  • Sonnet 93: So Shall I Live, Supposing Thou Art True
  • Sonnet 94: They That Have Power To Hurt And Will Do None
  • Sonnet 95: How Sweet And Lovely Dost Thou Make The Shame
  • Sonnet 96: Some Say Thy Fault Is Youth, Some Wantonness
  • Sonnet 97: How Like A Winter Hath My Absence Been
  • Sonnet 98: From You Have I Been Absent In The Spring
  • Sonnet 99: The Forward Violet Thus Did I Chide
  • Sonnet 9: Is It For Fear To Wet A Widow's Eye
  • Sonnet C
  • Sonnet Ci
  • Sonnet Cii
  • Sonnet Ciii
  • Sonnet Civ
  • Sonnet Cix
  • Sonnet Cl
  • Sonnet Cli
  • Sonnet Clii
  • Sonnet Cliii
  • Sonnet Cliv
  • Sonnet Cv
  • Sonnet Cvi
  • Sonnet Cvii
  • Sonnet Cvii: Not Mine Own Fears, Nor The Prophetic Soul
  • Sonnet Cviii
  • Sonnet Cx
  • Sonnet Cxi
  • Sonnet Cxi: O, For My Sake Do You With Fortune Chide
  • Sonnet Cxii
  • Sonnet Cxiii
  • Sonnet Cxiv
  • Sonnet Cxix
  • Sonnet Cxl
  • Sonnet Cxli
  • Sonnet Cxlii
  • Sonnet Cxliii
  • Sonnet Cxliv
  • Sonnet Cxlix
  • Sonnet Cxlv
  • Sonnet Cxlvi
  • Sonnet Cxlvii
  • Sonnet Cxlviii
  • Sonnet Cxv
  • Sonnet Cxvi
  • Sonnet Cxvi: Let Me Not To The Marriage Of True Minds
  • Sonnet Cxvii
  • Sonnet Cxviii
  • Sonnet Cxx
  • Sonnet Cxxi
  • Sonnet Cxxii
  • Sonnet Cxxiii
  • Sonnet Cxxix
  • Sonnet Cxxv
  • Sonnet Cxxvi
  • Sonnet Cxxviii
  • Sonnet Cxxxi
  • Sonnet Cxxxii
  • Sonnet Cxxxiii
  • Sonnet Cxxxiv
  • Sonnet Cxxxix
  • Sonnet Cxxxv
  • Sonnet Cxxxvi
  • Sonnet Cxxxvii
  • Sonnet Cxxxviii
  • Sonnet I: From Fairest Creatures We Desire Increase
  • Sonnet Ii: When Forty Winters Shall Besiege Thy Brow
  • Sonnet Iii: Look In Thy Glass, And Tell The Face Thou Viewest
  • Sonnet Iv: Unthrifty Loveliness, Why Dost Thou Spend
  • Sonnet Ix
  • Sonnet L
  • Sonnet Li
  • Sonnet Lii
  • Sonnet Liii
  • Sonnet Lix
  • Sonnet Lv
  • Sonnet Lvi
  • Sonnet Lvii
  • Sonnet Lviii
  • Sonnet Lx
  • Sonnet Lxi
  • Sonnet Lxii
  • Sonnet Lxiii
  • Sonnet Lxix
  • Sonnet Lxv
  • Sonnet Lxvi
  • Sonnet Lxx
  • Sonnet Lxxi
  • Sonnet Lxxii
  • Sonnet Lxxiii
  • Sonnet Lxxiv
  • Sonnet Lxxix
  • Sonnet Lxxv
  • Sonnet Lxxvi
  • Sonnet Lxxvii
  • Sonnet Lxxviii
  • Sonnet Lxxx
  • Sonnet Lxxxi
  • Sonnet Lxxxii
  • Sonnet Lxxxiii
  • Sonnet Lxxxiv
  • Sonnet Lxxxix
  • Sonnet Lxxxv
  • Sonnet Lxxxvi
  • Sonnet Lxxxvii
  • Sonnet Lxxxviii
  • Sonnet V: Those Hours, That With Gentle Work Did Frame
  • Sonnet Vi
  • Sonnet Vii
  • Sonnet Viii
  • Sonnet X
  • Sonnet Xc
  • Sonnet Xci
  • Sonnet Xciii
  • Sonnet Xciv: They That Have Power To Hurt And Will Do None
  • Sonnet Xcix
  • Sonnet Xcv
  • Sonnet Xcvi
  • Sonnet Xcvii
  • Sonnet Xcviii
  • Sonnet Xi
  • Sonnet Xii
  • Sonnet Xiii
  • Sonnet Xiv
  • Sonnet Xix: Devouring Time, Blunt Thou The Lion's Paws
  • Sonnet Xl
  • Sonnet Xli
  • Sonnet Xlii
  • Sonnet Xliii
  • Sonnet Xliv
  • Sonnet Xlix
  • Sonnet Xlv
  • Sonnet Xlvi
  • Sonnet Xlvii
  • Sonnet Xlviii
  • Sonnet Xv: When I Consider Everything That Grows
  • Sonnet Xvi
  • Sonnet Xvii
  • Sonnet Xviii: Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day?
  • Sonnet Xx
  • Sonnet Xxi
  • Sonnet Xxii
  • Sonnet Xxiii
  • Sonnet Xxiv
  • Sonnet Xxix: When, In Disgrace With Fortune And Men's Eyes
  • Sonnet Xxvi
  • Sonnet Xxvii
  • Sonnet Xxviii
  • Sonnet Xxx: When To The Sessions Of Sweet Silent Thought
  • Sonnet Xxxi
  • Sonnet Xxxii: If Thou Survive My Well-Contented Day
  • Sonnet Xxxiii
  • Sonnet Xxxiv
  • Sonnet Xxxix
  • Sonnet Xxxv
  • Sonnet Xxxvi
  • Sonnet Xxxvii
  • Sonnet Xxxviii: How Can My Muse Want Subject To Invent
  • Sonnets Cx: Alas, 'Tis True I Have Gone Here And There
  • Sonnets Cxlvi: Poor Soul, The Centre Of My Sinful Earth
  • Sonnets Cxvi: Let Me Not To The Marriage Of True Minds
  • Sonnets I
  • Sonnets Ii
  • Sonnets Iii
  • Sonnets Iv
  • Sonnets Ix
  • Sonnets Liii: What Is Your Substance, Whereof Are You Made
  • Sonnets Lx: Like As The Waves Make Towards The Pebbl'D Shor
  • Sonnets To The Sundry Notes Of Music
  • Sonnets Vi
  • Sonnets Vii
  • Sonnets Viii
  • Sonnets X
  • Sonnets Xciv: They That Have Power To Hurt And Will Do None
  • Sonnets Xi
  • Sonnets Xii
  • Sonnets Xiii
  • Sonnets Xiv
  • Sonnets Xix
  • Sonnets Xix: Devouring Time, Blunt Thou The Lion's Paws
  • Sonnets Xv
  • Sonnets Xvi
  • Sonnets Xvii
  • Sonnets Xviii
  • Sonnets Xviii: Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day?
  • Sonnets Xx
  • Sonnets Xxix: When, In Disgrace With Fortune And Men's Eyes
  • Sonnets Xxv: Let Those Who Are In Favour With Their Stars
  • Sonnets Xxx: When To The Sessions Of Sweet Silent Thought
  • Sonnets Xxxiii: Full Many A Glorious Morning Have I Seen
  • Speech: "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears"
  • Speech: "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow"
  • Spring And Winter
  • St. Crispin’s Day Speech: From Henry V
  • Take, O Take Those Lips Away
  • That Time Of Year Thou Mayst In Me Behold (Sonnet 73)
  • The Blossom
  • The Canakin Clink Pub Song (From 'Othello')
  • The Dark Lady Sonnets (127 - 154)
  • The Passionate Pilgrim
  • The Phoenix And The Turtle
  • The Procreation Sonnets (1 - 17)
  • The Quality Of Mercy
  • The Rival Poet Sonnets (78 - 86)
  • To Be, Or Not To Be (Hamlet, Act Iii, Scene I)
  • Twelve O'Clock - Fairy Time
  • Under The Greenwood Tree
  • When In Disgrace With Fortune And Men's Eyes (Sonnet 29)
  • When That I Was And A Little Tiny Boy
  • When To The Sessions Of Sweet Silent Thought (Sonnet 30)
  • Where The Bee Sucks (from The Tempest)
  • William Shakespeare Epitaph
  • Winter
  • Witches Chant (From Macbeth)
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