Poetry of Shakespeare

William Shakespeare
born 1564, died 1616

Sonnet

Let those who are in favour with their stars
Of public honour and proud titles boast,
Whilst I, whom fortune of such triumph bars,
Unlook'd for joy in that I honour most.
Great princes' favourites their fair leaves spread,
But as the marigold at the sun's eye;
And in themselves their pride lies buried,
For at a frown they in their glory die.
The painful warrior, famoused for fight,
After a thousand victories once foil'd,
Is from the book of honour razed quite,
And all the rest forgot for witch he toil'd:
Then, happy I, that love and am beloved,
Where I may not remove, nor be removed.

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