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The Fair Youth Sonnets (sonnets 1 – 126)

Read Shakespeare’s sonnets first hand on About.com. Here, you can read the first sequence of sonnets called the Fair Youth Sonnets.
Sonnet 21
Sonnet 21 - So Is It Not With Me As With That Muse. Read the complete text to sonnet 21 here.
Sonnet 18
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? Read the complete text here.
Sonnet 19
Devouring Time, Blunt Thou the Lion's Paws. Read the complete text here.
Sonnet 20
A Woman's Face with Nature's own Hand Painted. Read the complete text here.

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