Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog Project Gutenberg 1997-09-01 Public domain in the USA. 2612 Shakespeare, William 1564 1616 Shakspeare, William Shakspere, William Shakespeare's Sonnets Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Lady_(Shakespeare) the Project Gutenberg Shakespeare Team "Shakespeare's Sonnets" by William Shakespeare is a collection of 154 poems written in the late 16th century during the English Renaissance. This renowned work explores themes of love, beauty, time, and mortality, expressed through a series of lyrical reflections often directed toward a young man and a "dark lady." The sonnets’ intricate exploration of human emotion and the complexities of love makes this collection a profound contribution to the world of poetry. The opening of "Shakespeare's Sonnets" presents a series of meditations on the nature and consequences of beauty and procreation. In the initial sonnets, the speaker urges a young man to reproduce to preserve his beauty and legacy against the relentless passage of time. Shakespeare employs vivid imagery to illustrate the fleeting nature of youth and the importance of nurturing future generations as a means of defying death. Within these early poems, the interplay between self-love and the obligation to share one’s beauty with the world serves to set the tone for the subsequent exploration of love, desire, and the inherent struggles with time and mortality. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 70.1 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en English poetry Sonnets, English PR Text Category: Poetry Category: Classics of Literature Category: British Literature 147941 2025-08-01T08:20:30.932595 text/html 129436 2024-03-10T08:31:37 text/html 386230 2025-08-01T08:20:38.584539 application/epub+zip 394017 2025-08-01T08:20:32.496563 application/epub+zip 228068 2025-08-01T08:20:31.674588 application/epub+zip 405264 2025-08-01T08:20:42.581543 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 330153 2025-08-01T08:20:37.335532 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 226988 2022-09-13T01:07:18.594318 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 119978 2025-08-01T08:20:30.414606 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 100231 2024-03-10T08:31:37 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16646 2025-08-01T08:20:42.740518 application/rdf+xml 19455 2025-08-01T08:20:31.781575 image/jpeg 3100 2025-08-01T08:20:31.726571 image/jpeg 269466 2025-08-01T08:20:30.948574 application/octet-stream application/zip en.wikipedia