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Sonnet 12 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare.It is a procreation sonnet within the Fair Youth sequence.. In the sonnet, the poet goes through a series of images of mortality, such as a clock, a withering flower, a barren tree and autumn, etc.
Shakespeare's poem The Phoenix and the Turtle was first published in Robert Chester's Loves Martyr (1601). The Phoenix and the Turtle (also spelled The Phœnix and the Turtle) is an allegorical poem by William Shakespeare, first published in 1601 as a supplement to a longer work, Love's Martyr, by Robert Chester.
1640 – The publisher John Benson publishes an anthology of poems; some are by Shakespeare, and about 30 are not, but all are ascribed to Shakespeare. It is titled "Poems: Written by Wil. Shakespeare Gent". Benson is even more wildly piratical than Jaggard. Benson draws on The Passionate Pilgrim and other sources, including Shakespeare's ...
Sonnet 139 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet.The English sonnet has three quatrains, followed by a final rhyming couplet.It follows the typical rhyme scheme of ...
Sonnet 73, one of the most famous of William Shakespeare's 154 sonnets, focuses on the theme of old age.The sonnet addresses the Fair Youth.Each of the three quatrains contains a metaphor: Autumn, the passing of a day, and the dying out of a fire.
Saying he wrote it for his children, he included it in his book, “Poems,” in 1844. But the family of Henry Livingston, who was related to Moore’s wife, claimed that Livingston had written it.
Sonnet 64 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet.The English sonnet has three quatrains, followed by a final rhyming couplet.It follows the typical rhyme scheme of the form, abab cdcd efef gg and is composed in iambic pentameter, a type of poetic metre based on five pairs of metrically weak/strong syllabic positions.
Holiday parties, tree decorating, gift exchanges and religious services abound during December. The Journal Star Christmas Fund is a central Illinois tradition that dates to 1913. Over 111 years ...