Section: «Poems»
Verse (ancient Greek ὁ στίχος — row, structure), a term in versification used in several meanings:
artistic speech organized by division into rhythmically commensurate segments; poetry in the narrow sense; in particular, it implies the properties of versification of a particular tradition ("antique verse", "Akhmatova's verse", etc.);
a line of poetic text organized according to a certain rhythmic pattern ("My uncle of the most honest rules").
Sonnet 128: How Oft, When Thou, My Music, Music Play'st
How oft, when thou, my music, music play'st,Upon that blessèd wood whose motion soundsWith thy sweet fingers when thou gently sway'stThe wiry concord..
© William Shakespeare
Sonnet 23: As An Unperfect Actor On The Stage
As an unperfect actor on the stageWho with his fear is put beside his part,Or some fierce thing replete with too much rage,Whose strength's abundance..
© William Shakespeare
Sonnet 100: Where Art Thou, Muse, That Thou Forget'st So Long
Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so longTo speak of that which gives thee all thy might?Spend'st thou thy fury on some worthless..
© William Shakespeare
To Be, Or Not To Be (Hamlet, Act Iii, Scene I)
To be, or not to be: that is the question:Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,Or to take arms..
© William Shakespeare
O Never Say That I Was False Of Heart
O never say that I was false of heart,Though absence seem'd my flame to qualify:As easy might I from myself departAs from my soul, which in thy..
© William Shakespeare
Sonnet 30: When To The Sessions Of Sweet Silent Thought
When to the sessions of sweet silent thoughtI summon up remembrance of things past,I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,And with old woes new..
© William Shakespeare
Sonnet 40: Take All My Loves, My Love, Yea, Take Them All
Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all;What hast thou then more than thou hadst before?No love, my love, that thou mayst true love call;All..
© William Shakespeare
Sonnet 1: From Fairest Creatures We Desire Increase
From fairest creatures we desire increase,That thereby beauty's rose might never die,But as the riper should by time decease,His tender heir might..
© William Shakespeare
Orpheus With His Lute Made Trees
Orpheus with his lute made trees,And the mountain tops that freeze,Bow themselves, when he did sing:To his music plants and flowersEver sprung; as..
© William Shakespeare
Sonnet 145: Those Lips That Love's Own Hand Did Make
Those lips that Love's own hand did makeBreathed forth the sound that said "I hate"To me that languished for her sake;But when she saw my woeful..
© William Shakespeare
Not Marble Nor The Guilded Monuments (Sonnet 55)
Not marble nor the gilded monumentsOf princes shall outlive this powerful rhyme;But you shall shine more bright in these contentsThan unswept stone..
© William Shakespeare
Sonnet 102: My Love Is Strengthened, Though More Weak In Seeming
My love is strengthened, though more weak in seeming;I love not less, though less the show appear;That love is merchandized, whose rich esteemingThe..
© William Shakespeare
Sonnet 141: In Faith, I Do Not Love Thee With Mine Eyes
In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes,For they in thee a thousand errors note;But 'tis my heart that loves what they despise,Who in despite of..
© William Shakespeare
When In Disgrace With Fortune And Men's Eyes (Sonnet 29)
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..
© William Shakespeare
Orpheus
Orpheus with his lute made treesAnd the mountain tops that freeze Bow themselves when he did sing:To his music plants and flowersEver sprung; as..
© William Shakespeare
Sonnet 20: A Woman's Face With Nature's Own Hand Painted
A woman's face with Nature's own hand paintedHast thou, the master-mistress of my passion;A woman's gentle heart, but not acquaintedWith shifting..
© William Shakespeare
Fairy Land Iii
COME unto these yellow sands, And then take hands:Court'sied when you have, and kiss'd,-- The wild waves whist,--Foot it featly here and..
© William Shakespeare
It Was A Lover And His Lass
IT was a lover and his lass, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,That o'er the green corn-field did pass, In the spring time, the only pretty..
© William Shakespeare
Silvia
WHO is Silvia? What is she? That all our swains commend her?Holy, fair, and wise is she; The heaven such grace did lend her,That she might..
© William Shakespeare
Not From The Stars Do I My Judgment Pluck (Sonnet 14)
Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck,And yet methinks I have astronomy;But not to tell of good or evil luck,Of plagues, of dearths, or seasons'..
© William Shakespeare
Sigh No More
Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,Men were deceivers ever;One foot in sea, and one on shore,To one thing constant never.Then sigh not so,But let..
© William Shakespeare
Under The Greenwood Tree
Under the greenwood treeWho loves to lie with me,And turn his merry noteUnto the sweet bird's throat,Come hither, come hither, come hither:Here shall..
© William Shakespeare
Juliet's Soliloquy
Farewell!--God knows when we shall meet again.I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veinsThat almost freezes up the heat of life:I'll call them..
© William Shakespeare
Sonnet 130: My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like The Sun
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;Coral is far more red than her lips' red;If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;If hairs be wires..
© William Shakespeare
From Venus And Adonis
But, lo! from forth a copse that neighbours by,A breeding jennet, lusty, young, and proud,Adonis' trampling courser doth espy,And forth she rushes..
© William Shakespeare