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Best Shakespearean Poems

Below are the all-time best Shakespearean poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of shakespearean poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Love's Alchemy Is Eternal
Love’s Alchemy is Eternal

Your look, touch, and scent now so perfect pure,
Enchants my true emotions and soaring passion.
I knoweth now our love shall always endure,
As...

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Categories: shakespearean, dream, emotions, god, heaven,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member The Hush of Christmas Past
Can you recall the hush of Christmas past?
Think back to when you were a little child,
excited Santa Claus would come at last,
too young to even...

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Categories: shakespearean, child, christmas,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member frozen farewell -
your breath upon the window freezes lace
        yet warm against my cheek, its somber strains
   ...

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Categories: shakespearean, analogy, christmas, goodbye, lost
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Hole Deep In One's Own Heart
The Hole Deep in One’s Own Heart

In moments of greatest loss, sadness and sorrow,
A hole forms so deep within one’s own heart;
There it shall remain...

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Categories: shakespearean, allegory, god, heaven, imagery,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Christmas
The bells are calling as the snowflakes fall
Illuminations twinkle with delight
A goodwill message sent to one and all
The joys of Christmas fill this festive night.

Excited...

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Categories: shakespearean, christmas,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Excalibur
Some fun with Shakespearean Sonnet

The sword locked tight and firm within the stone
awaits a heart with strong undaunted faith,
oft tempered hard by fire the dragon's...

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Categories: shakespearean, truth,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Why Poetry
With Shakespearean romance I can't compete
Or Virginia Woolf's lovely agony
Or the wit of Dorothy Parker or Mark Twain
The genius of Emily Dickinson, splendidly plain

I know...

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Categories: shakespearean, appreciation, encouraging, inspirational, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member You Surround Me
In Silk and Dreams, breakfast at Tiffany’s 
nights of lavender lace, mornings with dew 
a highlighted garden of mysteries
waterfall wishes, windblown thoughts of you

In a...

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Categories: shakespearean, dream, emotions, music, romance,
Form: Sonnet
The Dog of My Life
Shakespearean Sonnet

I remember the day I picked you,
With your sweet little puppy dog eyes.
For my heart was searching for love too,
When I looked down and...

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Categories: shakespearean, best friend, fun, love,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Grim Reaper Cometh
As All Hallows’ Eve approacheth my thoughts turneth to darkest dread,
Whilst in old age I harboureth a deep fear of seeing this one’s grim head;
Methinks...

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Categories: shakespearean, allegory, dark, evil, fantasy,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Your Kiss
Your kiss is so rapturous my great love;
Your red lips are like red rubies precious;
A love quite special in Heaven above;
And ever no doubt much...

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Categories: shakespearean, allegory, beauty, emotions, feelings,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Your Beautiful Heart Doth Beat
Your Beautiful Heart Doth Beat

Your beautiful heart doth beat with rapture,
And the sweet of your kiss doth now swoon me.
We caress now and my soul...

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Categories: shakespearean, emotions, god, heaven, love,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Beautiful Lies
Stark truth can be unkind and hard to hear,
Not always the best choice for someone dear.
A child who is not blessed with pulchritude,
Need not be...

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Categories: shakespearean, beauty, may, truth,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Christmas Music
Traditional Format

Compassion’s finger strums another note,
he listens as the angels start to sing,
recalling lines from what apostles wrote,
indwells the spirit held by Heaven’s king.

Succinctly spoken...

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Categories: shakespearean, angel, christian, christmas, faith,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Guy From Quebec
Beneath his coal-black forelocks, flirty eyes
kept meeting mine when I allowed my gaze
to fall on him. As if I were a prize,
he grinned at me....

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Categories: shakespearean, first love,
Form: Sonnet

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