The Sonnets

William Shakespeare, in addition to his famous plays, also wrote 154 sonnets which were first published in 1609.

Shakespeare's sonnets are considered by some to be the prototype, or beginning of a new kind of modern (for the time) love poetry. The most famous of these, is #18, which contains the line "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day."So, here, for your enjoyment, are all 154 of the sonnets by the bard himself...