Shakespeare's sonnets, or simply The Sonnets, is a collection of
poems in
sonnet form written by
William Shakespeare that deal with such themes as
love,
beauty,
politics, and mortality. They were probably written over a period of several years. All 154 poems appeared in a 1609 collection, comprising 152 previously unpublished sonnets and two poems, numbers 138 ("When my love swears that she is made of truth") and 144 ("Two loves have I, of comfort and despair"), that had previously been published in a 1599
miscellany entitled
The Passionate Pilgrim.
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