FAREWELL! thou art too dear for my possessing,
And like enough thou know’st thy estimate:
The charter of thy worth gives thee releasing;
My bonds in thee are all determinate.
For how do I hold thee but by thy granting?
And for that riches where is my deserving?
The cause of this fair gift in me is wanting,
And so my patent back again is swerving.
Thyself thou gav’st, thy own worth then not knowing,
Or me, to whom thou gav’st it, else mistaking;
So thy great gift, upon misprision growing,
Comes home again, on better judgement making.
Thus have I had thee, as a dream doth flatter
In sleep a King; but waking, no such matter.
About the poet |
William Shakespeare |
By the same poet |
Sonnet i |
Sonnet ii |
Sonnet iii |
Sonnet iv |
Sonnet v |
Sonnet vi |
Sonnet vii |
Sonnet viii |
Sonnet x |
Sonnet xi |
Sonnet xii |
Sonnet xiii |
Sonnet xiv |
Sonnet xv |
Sonnet xvi |
Sonnet xvii |
Sonnet xviii |
Sonnet xix |
Sonnet xx |
Carpe Diem |
Silvia |
The Blossom |
Spring and Winter (i) |
Spring and Winter (ii) |
Fairy Land (i) |
Fairy Land (ii) |
Fairy Land (iii) |
Fairy Land (iv) |
Fairy Land (v) |
Love |
Dirge |
Under the Greenwood Tree |
Blow, blow, thou Winter Wind |
It was a Lover and his Lass |
Take, O take those Lips away |
Aubade |
Fidele |
The Phoenix and the Turtle |
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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.co.uk |