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Shakespeare's sonnets

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Poem by William Shakespeare | Sonnet 1: From fairest creatures we desire increase | Literature/poems

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Shakespeare sonnets (Literature/Poetry) Sonnet 2: When forty winters shall beseige thy brow

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Shakespeare sonnets (Literature/Poetry) Sonnet 5: Those hours, that with gentle work did frame

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Shakespeare Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

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Shakespeare sonnets (Literature/Poetry) Sonnet 10: For shame! deny that thou bear'st love to any,

Shakespeare's sonnets are poems that William Shakespeare wrote on a variety of themes. When discussing or referring to Shakespeare’s sonnets, it is almost always a reference to the 154 sonnets that were first published all together in a quarto in 1609; however there are six additional sonnets that Shakespeare wrote and included in the plays Romeo and Juliet, Henry V and Love's Labour's Lost.