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Then let not winter's ragged hand deface,
In thee thy summer, ere thou be distilled:
Make sweet some vial; treasure thou some place
With beauty's treasure ere it be self-killed.
That use is not forbidden usury,
Which happies those that pay the willing loan;
That's for thy self to breed another thee,
Or ten times happier, be it ten for one;
Ten times thy self were happier than thou art,
If ten of thine ten times refigured thee:
Then what could death do if thou shouldst depart,
Leaving thee living in...
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- Sonnet 1—From fairest creatures we desire increase
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- Sonnet 18—Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
- Sonnet 19—Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws
- Sonnet 29—When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes
- Sonnet 30—When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
- Sonnet 35—No more be grieved at that which thou hast done
- Sonnet 38—How can my muse want subject to invent
- Sonnet 55—Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
- Sonnet 60—Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore
- Sonnet 66—Tired with all these, for restful death I cry
- Sonnet 73—That time of year thou mayst in me behold
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- Sonnet 116—Let me not to the marriage of true minds
- Sonnet 130—My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun
- Sonnet 138—When my love swears that she is made of truth
- Sonnet 147—My love is as a fever longing still
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