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:( I was curious if anyone here knows shakespear? Maybe a poem of his. If so maybe you could write it out. See I dont know nothing about shakepear and I have to and I have none of his books or anything! I am stuck and I would beeeeee eternally owing anyone who could help and maybe share a poem they like or would like to share. SO post even if you dont. :smiley: I was just curious. PLEASE!!!!!!!! Thank you everyone for your time! :smiley:
 
This is my personal favorite:

Sonnet XXIX
When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries
And look upon myself and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possess'd,
Desiring this man's art and that man's scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least;
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate;
For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
- William Shakespeare -
(1564-1616)
 
This is one of Shakespeare's more famous sonnets, it's Sonnet 18. If you need help deciphering its meaning or if you'd like another one instead, let me know! :D

1. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
2. Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
3. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
4. And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
5. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
6. And often is his gold complexion dimmed,
7. And every fair from fair sometime declines,
8. By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed:
9. But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
10. Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
11. Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
12. When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,
13. So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
14. So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
 
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