Sonnets

Sonnet XL

Take all my loves,my love,yea,take them all;

What hast thou then more than thou hadst before?

No love,my love,that thou mayst true love call;

All mine was thine before thou hadst this more.

Then if for my love thou my love receivest,

I cannot blame thee, for my love thou usest;

But yet be blamed, if thou thyself deceivest

By wilful taste of what thyself refusest.

I do forgive thy robb'ry, gentle thief,

Although thou steal thee all my poverty;

And yet love knows it is a greater grief

To bear love's wrong than hate's known injury.

Lascivious grace, in whom all ill well shows,

Kill me with spites, yet we must not be foes.

W. Shakespeare

Shakespearian Girl

Sonnet XXX

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste:
Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow,
For precious friends hid in death's dateless night,
And weep afresh love's long since cancell'd woe,
And moan the expense of many a vanish'd sight:
Then can I grieve at grievances foregone,
And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er
The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan,
Which I new pay as if not paid before.
But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restored and sorrows end.

W. Shakespeare

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Sonnet L

How heavy do I journey on the way,
When what I seek, my weary travel's end,
Doth teach that ease and that repose to say
'Thus far the miles are measured from thy friend!'
The beast that bears me, tired with my woe,
Plods dully on, to bear that weight in me,
As if by some instinct the wretch did know
His rider loved not speed, being made from thee:
The bloody spur cannot provoke him on
That sometimes anger thrusts into his hide;
Which heavily he answers with a groan,
More sharp to me than spurring to his side;
For that same groan doth put this in my mind;
My grief lies onward and my joy behind.

w. Shakespeare..

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Sonnet XVIII

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee.

W. Shakespeare..

Shakespearian Girl

Short Biograghy:

For all his fame and celebration, William Shakespeare remains a mysterious figure with regards to personal history.

William Shakespeare's exact date of birth is not know. He was baptised on the 26th of April 1564 and as it was common practice to baptise children shortly after their birth, it has always been assumed that the date of birth was the 23rd of April 1564. He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon to John and Mary (nee Arden) who married in about 1557. His father, who died in 1601 was a butcher and maker and seller of leather goods, primarily gloves. His mother died in 1608.

William was the third oldest in a family of eight. The oldest was Joan who was born in 1558 and died in infancy. The second child was Margaret who died in 1563, a year old. Gilbert was immediately after William and he died when he was 50. After Gilbert was Joan (it was common practice to use the name of a dead older sibling again). Joan lived until she was 77 years old. Next was Anna who died when she was 8 years old. Richard followed Anna and he lived until he was 39. Finally there was Edmund who died when he was 27. William himself very nearly died as a children from a plague that swept the village.
Surprisingly, William's father appeared to have been illiterate. Despite this, John Shakespeare was a burgess of the borough, an alderman and a bailiff. Mary, William's mother, came from a very well established family and was an heiress to some land. By the time William was 7, he could both read and write. He attended Grammar School and studied Latin.
At the age of 18, in 1582, William married Anne Hathaway who was eight years his senior. The exact date is not known, but the best guess is the 28th of November. Anne finally died in 1623, seven years after William.

Little more is known of William until 1592 (this is sometimes referred to as 'the missing years') when a rival criticised him and called him "an upstart Crow" (Robert Greene, 1592). In 1593 he published Venus and Adonis and followed this with The Rape of Lucrece in 1594.
In January 1593 he was involved in a group of 6 other men who started a new theatre company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, also known as the King's Men. During this time, William wrote most of the plays for the group, averaging two plays a year. In 1599, he was involved in the building of a new theatre called The Globe which was completed in May.
During his 52 years he wrote 37 plays, 154 sonnets and various other poems. He did not, however, leave any direct descendants. Anne bore three children, two girls and one boy. The boy called Hamnet died when he was 11. The two girls both married. The oldest, Susanna, married Dr John Hall and had one daughter, Elizabeth, who, although she married twice, had no children. The other daughter Judith (Hamnet's twin) married Thomas Quiney Vintner. She and Thomas had three boys. The first died when he was a year old and the other two died at ages 21 and 19 without any children.

For more information :

http://www.william-shakespeare.info/index.htm

http://www.shakespeare-online.com/biography/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare

http://gouk.about.com/cs/culturehistory/a/wshakespeare.htm

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