The web site of Shakespeare's Sonnets, Shakespeare's Monument.

 

HAKESPEARE'S   ONNETS

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Ivdicio Pylium, genio Socratem, arte Maronem,
Terra tegit, Populus Maeret, Olympus habet

 

STAY PASSENGER, WHY GOEST THOV BY SO FAST?
READ IF THOV CANST, WHOM ENVIOVS DEATH HATH PLAST
WITH IN THIS MONVMENT SHAKSPEARE: WITH WHOME,
QVICK NATVRE DIDE: WHOSE NAME, DOTH DECK YS TOMBE,
FAR MORE, THEN COST: SIEH ALL, YT HE HATH WRITT,
LEAVES LIVING ART, BVT PAGE, TO SERVE HIS WITT.


Obit ano do 1616
Aetatis*53 Die 23 Apr.

 

 

The Latin inscription translates as:

The Judgment of Nestor, The Genius of Socrates, The Art of Virgil: The Earth Encloses, The People Sorrow, Olympus Possesses.

 

 

 

 

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Sonnets 1 - 50

Sonnets 51 - 100

Sonnets 101 - 154

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