William Shakespeare-Selected Poetry

William Shakespeare [1564-1616]

1. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act II, Scene I [Over hill, over dale]
2. Antony and Cleopatra, Act II, Scene II [The barge she sat in, like a burnish’d throne]
3. As You Like It, Act II, Scene VII [All the world’s a stage]
4. As You Like It, Act II, Scene VII [Blow, blow, thou winter wind]
5. From fairest creatures we desire increase (Sonnet 1)
6. Hamlet, Act I, Scene I [Some say that ever ‘gainst that season comes]
7. Hamlet, Act III, Scene I [To be, or not to be]
8. Hamlet, Act III, Scene II [Nay, do not think I flatter]
9. Hamlet, Act III, Scene III [Oh my offence is rank]
10. Hamlet, Act IV, Scene IV [How all occasions do inform against me]
11. Henry V, Act III, Scene I [Once more unto the breach, dear friends]
12. Henry V, Act V, Scene III [What’s he that wishes so?]
13. Henry VIII, Prologue [I come no more to make you laugh]
14. Is it for fear to we a widow’s eye (Sonnet 9)
15. Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene I [Wherefore rejoice?]
16. Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene II [I know that virtue to be in you, Brutus]
17. Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene II [Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world]
18. Julius Caesar, Act II, Scene I [It must be by his death. And for my part]
19. Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene II [Be patient till the last]
20. Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene II [Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears]
21. King Lear, Act III, Scene II [Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!]
22. Lo! In the orient when the gracious light (Sonnet 7)
23. Look in thy glass, and tell the faces thou viewest (Sonnet 3)
24. Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act V, Scene 2 [Winter]
25. Macbeth, Act I, Scene II [The merciless Macdonwald]
26. Macbeth, Act I, Scene VII [If it were done when ’tis done]
27. Macbeth, Act II, Scene III [Here’s a knocking indeed]
28. Macbeth, Act IV, Scene I [Round about the cauldron go]
29. Macbeth, Act V, Scene V [She should have died hereafter]
30. Music to hear, why hear’st thou music sadly? (Sonnet 8)
31. Orpheus
32. Othello, Act I, Scene I [O, sir, content you]
33. Othello, Act III, Scene III [O, beware, my lord, of jealousy]
34. Romeo and Juliet, Act III, Scene II [Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds]
35. Tempest, Act V, Scene I [Where the bee sucks, there suck I]
36. The Merchant of Venice, Act IV, Scene I [The quality of mercy is not strained]
37. The Tempest, Act III, Scene II [Be not afeard]
38. The Tempest, Act IV, Scene I [You do look, my son]
39. The Winter’s Tale Act IV, Scene II [When daffodils begin to peer]
40. Then let not winter’s ragged hand deface (Sonnet 6)
41. Those hours, that with gentle work did frame (Sonnet 5)
42. Three Songs
43. Timon of Athens, Act IV, Scene II [Good fellows all]
44. Troilus and Cressida, Act III, Scene III [TimeTime Where any expression of it occurs in any Rules, or any judgment, order or direction, and whenever the doing or not doing of anything at a certain time of the day or night or during a certain part of the day or night has an effect in law, that time is, unless it is otherwise specifically stated, held to be standard time as used in a particular country or state. (In Physics, time and Space never exist actually-“quantum entanglement”) hath, my lord]
45. Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene III [O Mistress mine, where are you roaming?]
46. Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend (Sonnet 4)
47. Venus and Adonis [But, lo! from forth a copse]
48. When forty winters shall besiege thy brow (Sonnet 2)
49. When I consider everything that grows (Sonnet 5)
50. When that I was and a little tiny boy

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