William Shakespeare
Sonnet ii
WHEN in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,
And look upon myself, and curse my fate;
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possest,
Desiring this man’s art, and that man’s scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least;
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
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 remember’d, such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
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| About the poet |
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| Sonnet v |
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| Sonnet ix |
| Sonnet x |
| Sonnet xi |
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| Sonnet xiii |
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| Sonnet xv |
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| Sonnet xviii |
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| The Blossom |
| Spring and Winter (i) |
| Spring and Winter (ii) |
| Fairy Land (i) |
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| Fairy Land (iii) |
| Fairy Land (iv) |
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| Under the Greenwood Tree |
| Blow, blow, thou Winter Wind |
| It was a Lover and his Lass |
| Take, O take those Lips away |
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| The Phoenix and the Turtle |
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| Related books |
| The Arden Shakespeare: Shakespeare's Sonnets, William Shakespeare, Katherine Duncan-Jones (Editor) |
| Shakespeare's Sonnets (Penguin Classics), William Shakespeare |
| The Complete Sonnets [AUDIOBOOK], William Shakespeare, Michael Williams (Narrator), Peter Egan (Narrator), Peter Orr (Narrator), Bob Peck (Narrator) |
| William Shakespeare at amazon.com |
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