Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets, first published in 1609, are the most celebrated sonnet sequence in the English language. Addressed to a mysterious ‘Fair Youth’ and a ‘Dark Lady’, they explore love, time, beauty, jealousy, and mortality in the tightest and most perfect of poetic forms — the fourteen-line iambic pentameter sonnet.
From the opening exhortation to ‘multiply’ beauty to the final resignation of Sonnet 154, the sequence rewards reading as a whole as much as in individual poems. This free EPUB presents all 154 sonnets cleanly numbered and formatted for any device.