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The Sonnets XXV - Let those who are in favour with their stars

By William Shakespeare

Topics: classic

Let those who are in favour with their stars     Of public honour and proud titles boast,     Whilst I, whom fortune of such triumph bars     Unlookd for joy in that I honour most.     Great princes favourites their fair leaves spread     But as the marigold at the suns eye,     And in themselves their pride lies buried,     For at a frown they in their glory die.     The painful warrior famoused for fight,     After a thousand victories once foild,     Is from the book of honour razed quite,     And all the rest forgot for which he toild:     Then happy I, that love and am belovd,     Where I may not remove nor be removd.

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William Shakespeare

About William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) was an English playwright and poet widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language. He wrote 154 sonnets and narrative poems including "Venus and Adonis" and "The Rape of Lucrece," alongside 37 plays that remain central to world literature.

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