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Timeless Words of Love, Devotion, and Desire from the Bard of Avon

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"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate."Sonnet 18 A classic line praising a beloved's beauty as surpassing even nature’s finest day.)

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"Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds." Sonnet 116 (A powerful expression of true, unchanging love.)

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 "So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee." Sonnet 18 (The poet promises immortality to the beloved through his verses.)

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"My love is as a fever, longing still For that which longer nurseth the disease." Sonnet 147 (A raw and intense image of love as both desire and suffering.)

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"With thy sweet love remember’d such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings." Sonnet 29 (Love is portrayed as the greatest treasure, richer than royal power.)

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"Being your slave, what should I do but tend Upon the hours and times of your desire?" Sonnet 57 (Love portrayed as devoted servitude, willing and constant.)

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 "When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see..." Sonnet 18 (Again affirming the power of poetry to preserve love forever.)

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"That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang..." Sonnet 73 (A bittersweet metaphor of aging, yet the love remains warm and true.)

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