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Shakespeare, William. Shake-speares Sonnets. London: Thomas Thorpe, 1609, sonnet 18, I. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "The Sonnets." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, sonnet 18.

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But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall Death brag thou wand’rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st.
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

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Shakespeare, William. Shake-speares Sonnets. London: Thomas Thorpe, 1609, sonnet 18, I. 9.

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My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red...
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

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Shakespeare, William. Shake-speares Sonnets. London: Thomas Thorpe, 1609, sonnet 130, I. 1.

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I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright,
Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.

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Shakespeare, William. Shake-speares Sonnets. London: Thomas Thorpe, 1609, sonnet 147, I. 13.

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When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste.

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Shakespeare, William. Shake-speares Sonnets. London: Thomas Thorpe, 1609, sonnet 30, I. 1.

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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

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Shakespeare, William. Shake-speares Sonnets. London: Thomas Thorpe, 1609, sonnet 116, I. 9.

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Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.

Sonnet 102

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Shakespeare, William. Shake-speares Sonnets. London: Thomas Thorpe, 1609, sonnet 102, I. 12.

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Vows were ever brokers to defiling.

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Shakespeare, William. "A Lover's Complaint." Shakespeare's Sonnets. London: Thomas Thorpe, 1609, I. 173.

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Shakespeare, William. "A Lover's Complaint." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, Walter Cohen, Suzanne Gossett, Jean E Howard, Katharine Eisaman Maus, and Gordon McMullan, 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015.

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Everything that grows
Holds in perfection but a little moment.

Sonnet 15

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Shakespeare, William. Shake-speares Sonnets. London: Thomas Thorpe, 1609, sonnet 15, I. 1.

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Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee
Calls back the lovely April of her prime.

Sonnet 3

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Shakespeare, William. Shake-speares Sonnets. London: Thomas Thorpe, 1609, sonnet 3, I. 9.

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When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes...
Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate;
For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

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Shakespeare, William. Shake-speares Sonnets. London: Thomas Thorpe, 1609, sonnet 29, I. 1.

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Farewell, thou art too dear for my possessing.

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Shakespeare, William. Shake-speares Sonnets. London: Thomas Thorpe, 1609, sonnet 87, I. 1.

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Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,
So do our minutes hasten to their end.

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Shakespeare, William. Shake-speares Sonnets. London: Thomas Thorpe, 1609, sonnet 60, I. 1.

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To me, fair friend, you never can be old,
For as you were when first your eye I eyed,
Such seems your beauty still.

Sonnet 104

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Shakespeare, William. Shake-speares Sonnets. London: Thomas Thorpe, 1609, sonnet 104, I. 1.

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Winter, which being full of care
Makes summer's welcome, thrice more wished, more rare.

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Shakespeare, William. Shake-speares Sonnets. London: Thomas Thorpe, 1609, sonnet 56, I. 13.

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Who is it that says most, which can say more
Than this rich praise, that you alone are you.

Sonnet 84

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Shakespeare, William. Shake-speares Sonnets. London: Thomas Thorpe, 1609, sonnet 84, I. 1.

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Nothing 'gainst Time's scythe can make defense.

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Shakespeare, William. Shake-speares Sonnets. London: Thomas Thorpe, 1609, sonnet 12, I. 13.

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds
Or bends with the remover to remove.
O, no, it is an ever-fixed mark.

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Shakespeare, William. Shake-speares Sonnets. London: Thomas Thorpe, 1609, sonnet 116, I. 1.

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And ruined love, when it is built anew,
Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

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