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William Shakespeare

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  1. A Lover's Complaint by William Shakespeare

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    nature, love, death
  2. Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind by William Shakespeare

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    nature, war, sea
  3. Orpheus with his Lute Made Trees by William Shakespeare

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    nature, love, death
  4. Sonnet 100: Where art thou Muse that thou forget'st so long by William Shakespeare

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    love, death, hope
  5. Sonnet 101: O truant Muse what shall be thy amends by William Shakespeare

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    love, death, beauty
  6. Sonnet 102: My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming by William Shakespeare

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    nature, love, hope
  7. Sonnet 103: Alack! what poverty my Muse brings forth by William Shakespeare

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    beauty
  8. Sonnet 104: To me, fair friend, you never can be old by William Shakespeare

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    nature, love, beauty
  9. Sonnet 105: Let not my love be call'd idolatry by William Shakespeare

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    nature, love, beauty
  10. Sonnet 106: When in the chronicle of wasted time by William Shakespeare

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    nature, love, death
  11. Sonnet 107: Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul by William Shakespeare

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    nature, love, death
  12. Sonnet 108: What's in the brain, that ink may character by William Shakespeare

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    nature, love, death
  13. Sonnet 109: O! never say that I was false of heart by William Shakespeare

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    nature, love, death
  14. Sonnet 10: For shame! deny that thou bear'st love to any by William Shakespeare

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    love, beauty, solitude
  15. Sonnet 110: Alas! 'tis true, I have gone here and there by William Shakespeare

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    love, death, faith
  16. Sonnet 111: O! for my sake do you with Fortune chide by William Shakespeare

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    love, faith, identity
  17. Sonnet 112: Your love and pity doth the impression fill by William Shakespeare

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    love, identity
  18. Sonnet 113: Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind by William Shakespeare

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    nature, love, identity
  19. Sonnet 114: Or whether doth my mind, being crown'd with you by William Shakespeare

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    love, identity
  20. Sonnet 115: Those lines that I before have writ do lie by William Shakespeare

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    love, beauty, solitude
  21. Sonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds by William Shakespeare

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    nature, love, death
  22. Sonnet 117: Accuse me thus: that I have scanted all by William Shakespeare

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    nature, love, solitude
  23. Sonnet 118: Like as, to make our appetite more keen by William Shakespeare

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    nature, love, death
  24. Sonnet 119: What potions have I drunk of Siren tears by William Shakespeare

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    love, death, beauty
  25. Sonnet 11: As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou grow'st by William Shakespeare

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    nature, death, beauty
  26. Sonnet 120: That you were once unkind befriends me now by William Shakespeare

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    nature, death, grief
  27. Sonnet 121: 'Tis better to be vile than vile esteem'd by William Shakespeare

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    war, identity, sea
  28. Sonnet 122: Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain by William Shakespeare

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    nature, love, death
  29. Sonnet 123: No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change by William Shakespeare

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    love, identity, time
  30. Sonnet 124: If my dear love were but the child of state by William Shakespeare

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    nature, love, death
  31. Sonnet 125: Were't aught to me I bore the canopy by William Shakespeare

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    nature, love, death
  32. Sonnet 126: O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power by William Shakespeare

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    love, beauty, solitude
  33. Sonnet 127: In the old age black was not counted fair by William Shakespeare

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    nature, love, beauty
  34. Sonnet 128: How oft when thou, my music, music play'st by William Shakespeare

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    nature, love, faith
  35. Sonnet 129: The expense of spirit in a waste of shame by William Shakespeare

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    death, hope, solitude
  36. Sonnet 12: When I do count the clock that tells the time by William Shakespeare

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    nature, love, death
  37. Sonnet 130: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun by William Shakespeare

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    nature, love, death
  38. Sonnet 131: Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art by William Shakespeare

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    love, beauty, solitude
  39. Sonnet 132: Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me by William Shakespeare

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    nature, love, death
  40. Sonnet 133: Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan by William Shakespeare

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    love, solitude, war
  41. Sonnet 134: So, now I have confess'd that he is thine by William Shakespeare

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    beauty, solitude, identity
  42. Sonnet 135: Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy 'Will,' by William Shakespeare

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    nature, love, beauty
  43. Sonnet 136: If thy soul check thee that I come so near by William Shakespeare

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    love, death, solitude
  44. Sonnet 137: Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes by William Shakespeare

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    nature, love, beauty
  45. Sonnet 138: When my love swears that she is made of truth by William Shakespeare

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    nature, love, identity
  46. Sonnet 139: O! call not me to justify the wrong by William Shakespeare

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    love, beauty, grief
  47. Sonnet 13: O! that you were your self; but, love you are by William Shakespeare

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    nature, love, death
  48. Sonnet 140: Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press by William Shakespeare

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    love, death, solitude
  49. Sonnet 141: In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes by William Shakespeare

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    love, hope, solitude
  50. Sonnet 142: Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate by William Shakespeare

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    nature, love, identity
  51. Sonnet 143: Lo, as a careful housewife runs to catch by William Shakespeare

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    love, hope, solitude
  52. Sonnet 144: Two loves I have of comfort and despair by William Shakespeare

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    love, death, beauty
  53. Sonnet 145: Those lips that Love's own hand did make by William Shakespeare

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    nature, love, death
  54. Sonnet 146: Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth by William Shakespeare

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    love, death, grief
  55. Sonnet 147: My love is as a fever longing still by William Shakespeare

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    nature, love, death
  56. Sonnet 148: O me! what eyes hath Love put in my head by William Shakespeare

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    nature, love, death
  57. Sonnet 149: Canst thou, O cruel! say I love thee not by William Shakespeare

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    love, identity, time
  58. Sonnet 14: Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck by William Shakespeare

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    nature, love, death
  59. Sonnet 150: O! from what power hast thou this powerful might by William Shakespeare

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    nature, love, beauty
  60. Sonnet 151: Love is too young to know what conscience is by William Shakespeare

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    love, death, beauty
  61. Sonnet 152: In loving thee thou know'st I am forsworn by William Shakespeare

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    love, beauty, hope
  62. Sonnet 153: Cupid laid by his brand and fell asleep by William Shakespeare

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    love, death, solitude
  63. Sonnet 154: The little Love-god lying once asleep by William Shakespeare

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    nature, love, beauty
  64. Sonnet 15: When I consider every thing that grows by William Shakespeare

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    nature, love, hope
  65. Sonnet 16: But wherefore do not you a mightier way by William Shakespeare

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    nature, love, beauty
  66. Sonnet 17: Who will believe my verse in time to come by William Shakespeare

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    death, beauty, solitude
  67. Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? by William Shakespeare

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    nature, love, death
  68. Sonnet 19: Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws by William Shakespeare

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    nature, love, beauty
  69. Sonnet 1: From fairest creatures we desire increase by William Shakespeare

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    nature, love, death
  70. Sonnet 20: A woman's face with nature's own hand painted by William Shakespeare

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    love, death, beauty
  71. Sonnet 21: So is it not with me as with that Muse by William Shakespeare

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    nature, love, death
  72. Sonnet 22: My glass shall not persuade me I am old by William Shakespeare

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    nature, love, death
  73. Sonnet 23: As an unperfect actor on the stage by William Shakespeare

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    love, solitude, time
  74. Sonnet 24: Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stell'd by William Shakespeare

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    nature, love, beauty
  75. Sonnet 25: Let those who are in favour with their stars by William Shakespeare

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    nature, love, death
  76. Sonnet 26: Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage by William Shakespeare

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    nature, love, death
  77. Sonnet 27: Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed by William Shakespeare

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    nature, love, death
  78. Sonnet 28: How can I then return in happy plight by William Shakespeare

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    nature, death, beauty
  79. Sonnet 29: When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes by William Shakespeare

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    nature, love, death
  80. Sonnet 2: When forty winters shall besiege thy brow by William Shakespeare

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    nature, beauty, war