With the partial exception of the Sonnets (1609), quarried since the early 19th century for autobiographical secrets allegedly encoded in them, the nondramatic writings … Sonnet 18 Summary by Shakespeare - Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day is a love sonnet in which the poet compares his beloved with summer (season of the year) and explains how his beloved is more beautiful and lovely than the summer? A JEWEL, BEING A SUN SHINING UPON THE MARIGOLD CLOSED IN A HEART OF GOLD, SENT TO HIS MISTRESS, NAMED MARY The sun doth make the marigold to flourish, The sun's departure mades it droop again; So golden Mary's sight my joys do nourish, But by her absence all my joys are slain. The sun arose as usual in the EastWarming up my wearied heartA flashing eggyolk of a feast.

The sun the marigold makes live and die, By her the sun shines brighter, so may I. While William Shakespeare’s reputation is based primarily on his plays, he became famous first as a poet. This sonnet compares the speaker’s lover to a number of other beauties—and never in the lover’s favor. From fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beauty's rose might never die, But as the riper should by time decease, His tender heir might bear his memory: ... With sun and moon, with earth and sea's rich gems, With April's first-born flowers, and all things rare, Page SONNET 59 If there be nothing new, but that which is Hath been before, how are our brains beguil'd, Which, labouring for invention, bear amiss The second burthen of a former child! The Sun~ A Sonnet poem by Theodora (Theo) Onken. The dark lady, who ultimately betrays the poet, appears in sonnets …

Her eyes are “nothing like the sun,” her lips are less red than coral; compared to white snow, her breasts are dun-colored, and her hairs are like black wires on her head. O, that record could with a backward look, Even of five hundred courses of the sun, Show me your image in some antique book, Since mind at first in character was done! All Sonnets. I. Sonnet 130 is the poet's pragmatic tribute to his uncomely mistress, commonly referred to as the dark lady because of her dun complexion.