First printed in 1609, these 154 poems begin by urging a beautiful young man to marry and pass on his looks, then deepen into love, jealousy, a rival poet, and a tormenting affair with a dark-eyed mistress. Running through them all is the poet’s promise that verse can outlast time, decay and death.
The most famous sonnet sequence in English, with lines nearly everyone already knows. Download the free EPUB.