Poetry Codex

Tudor & Elizabethan

William Shakespeare

1564-1616

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English poet and playwright from Stratford-upon-Avon, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language.

Beyond his plays, his non-dramatic verse includes the 154 Sonnets, the narrative poems Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece, and the shorter pieces collected as The Passionate Pilgrim.

Major Works (10)

  1. The First Part of King Henry the Fourth — History play, c. 1597
  2. The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth — History play, c. 1597-98
  3. The Life of King Henry the Fifth — History play, 1599
  4. The First Part of Henry the Sixth — History play, c. 1591-92
  5. The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth — History play, c. 1591
  6. The Third Part of King Henry the Sixth — History play, c. 1591
  7. King Henry the Eighth — History play, 1613
  8. The Life and Death of King John — History play, c. 1596
  9. The Tragedy of King Richard the Second — History play, c. 1595
  10. The Tragedy of King Richard the Third — History play, c. 1592-93

Poems (220)

  1. Sonnet 1
  2. Sonnet 2
  3. Sonnet 3
  4. Sonnet 4
  5. Sonnet 5
  6. Sonnet 6
  7. Sonnet 7
  8. Sonnet 8
  9. Sonnet 9
  10. Sonnet 10
  11. Sonnet 11
  12. Sonnet 12
  13. Sonnet 13
  14. Sonnet 14
  15. Sonnet 15
  16. Sonnet 16
  17. Sonnet 17
  18. Sonnet 18
  19. Sonnet 19
  20. Sonnet 20
  21. Sonnet 21
  22. Sonnet 22
  23. Sonnet 23
  24. Sonnet 24
  25. Sonnet 25
  26. Sonnet 26
  27. Sonnet 27
  28. Sonnet 28
  29. Sonnet 29
  30. Sonnet 30
  31. Sonnet 31
  32. Sonnet 32
  33. Sonnet 33
  34. Sonnet 34
  35. Sonnet 35
  36. Sonnet 36
  37. Sonnet 37
  38. Sonnet 38
  39. Sonnet 39
  40. Sonnet 40
  41. Sonnet 41
  42. Sonnet 42
  43. Sonnet 43
  44. Sonnet 44
  45. Sonnet 45
  46. Sonnet 46
  47. Sonnet 47
  48. Sonnet 48
  49. Sonnet 49
  50. Sonnet 50
  51. Sonnet 51
  52. Sonnet 52
  53. Sonnet 53
  54. Sonnet 54
  55. Sonnet 55
  56. Sonnet 56
  57. Sonnet 57
  58. Sonnet 58
  59. Sonnet 59
  60. Sonnet 60
  61. Sonnet 61
  62. Sonnet 62
  63. Sonnet 63
  64. Sonnet 64
  65. Sonnet 65
  66. Sonnet 66
  67. Sonnet 67
  68. Sonnet 68
  69. Sonnet 69
  70. Sonnet 70
  71. Sonnet 71
  72. Sonnet 72
  73. Sonnet 73
  74. Sonnet 74
  75. Sonnet 75
  76. Sonnet 76
  77. Sonnet 77
  78. Sonnet 78
  79. Sonnet 79
  80. Sonnet 80
  81. Sonnet 81
  82. Sonnet 82
  83. Sonnet 83
  84. Sonnet 84
  85. Sonnet 85
  86. Sonnet 86
  87. Sonnet 87
  88. Sonnet 88
  89. Sonnet 89
  90. Sonnet 90
  91. Sonnet 91
  92. Sonnet 92
  93. Sonnet 93
  94. Sonnet 94
  95. Sonnet 95
  96. Sonnet 96
  97. Sonnet 97
  98. Sonnet 98
  99. Sonnet 99
  100. Sonnet 100
  101. Sonnet 101
  102. Sonnet 102
  103. Sonnet 103
  104. Sonnet 104
  105. Sonnet 105
  106. Sonnet 106
  107. Sonnet 107
  108. Sonnet 108
  109. Sonnet 109
  110. Sonnet 110
  111. Sonnet 111
  112. Sonnet 112
  113. Sonnet 113
  114. Sonnet 114
  115. Sonnet 115
  116. Sonnet 116
  117. Sonnet 117
  118. Sonnet 118
  119. Sonnet 119
  120. Sonnet 120
  121. Sonnet 121
  122. Sonnet 122
  123. Sonnet 123
  124. Sonnet 124
  125. Sonnet 125
  126. Sonnet 126
  127. Sonnet 127
  128. Sonnet 128
  129. Sonnet 129
  130. Sonnet 130
  131. Sonnet 131
  132. Sonnet 132
  133. Sonnet 133
  134. Sonnet 134
  135. Sonnet 135
  136. Sonnet 136
  137. Sonnet 137
  138. Sonnet 138
  139. Sonnet 139
  140. Sonnet 140
  141. Sonnet 141
  142. Sonnet 142
  143. Sonnet 143
  144. Sonnet 144
  145. Sonnet 145
  146. Sonnet 146
  147. Sonnet 147
  148. Sonnet 148
  149. Sonnet 149
  150. Sonnet 150
  151. Sonnet 151
  152. Sonnet 152
  153. Sonnet 153
  154. Sonnet 154
  155. The Passionate Pilgrim: 1
  156. The Passionate Pilgrim: 2
  157. The Passionate Pilgrim: 3
  158. The Passionate Pilgrim: 4
  159. The Passionate Pilgrim: 5
  160. The Passionate Pilgrim: 6
  161. The Passionate Pilgrim: 7
  162. The Passionate Pilgrim: 8
  163. The Passionate Pilgrim: 9
  164. The Passionate Pilgrim: 10
  165. The Passionate Pilgrim: 11
  166. The Passionate Pilgrim: 12
  167. The Passionate Pilgrim: 13
  168. The Passionate Pilgrim: 14
  169. The Passionate Pilgrim: 15
  170. The Passionate Pilgrim: 16
  171. The Passionate Pilgrim: 17
  172. The Passionate Pilgrim: 18
  173. The Passionate Pilgrim: 19
  174. The Passionate Pilgrim: 20
  175. Venus and Adonis
  176. The Rape of Lucrece
  177. A Lover's Complaint
  178. Under the greenwood tree
  179. It was a lover and his lass
  180. Carpe Diem
  181. Winter
  182. Take O take those lips away
  183. Blow, blow, thou winter wind
  184. Dirge of Love
  185. Fidele
  186. A Sea Dirge
  187. Tell me where is Fancy bred
  188. Silvia
  189. The Rhyme of White and Red
  190. The Lover's Tears
  191. Spring and Winter
  192. Over Hill, Over Dale
  193. You Spotted Snakes with Double Tongue
  194. The Ousel-Cock, So Black of Hue
  195. Sigh No More, Ladies
  196. Hero's Epitaph
  197. Song of Woe
  198. Pinch Him, Fairies
  199. When That I Was and a Little Tiny Boy
  200. Rosalind
  201. Beauty's Epitome
  202. The Love-Letter
  203. To Love and Wed for Love Is Perfect Bliss
  204. A Wedlock-Hymn
  205. How Should I Your True Love Know?
  206. And Will He Not Come Again?
  207. The Witches' Cauldron
  208. Hark! Hark! the Lark at Heaven's Gate Sings
  209. Come, Thou Monarch of the Vine
  210. When Daffodils Begin to Peer
  211. A Merry Heart Goes All the Day
  212. Come Buy, Come Buy
  213. Come to the Pedlar
  214. Come unto These Yellow Sands
  215. Shake Off Slumber, and Beware
  216. Where the Bee Sucks, There Suck I
  217. A Bridal Song
  218. Now the Hungry Lion Roars
  219. The Caskets
  220. The Phoenix and the Turtle

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