Shakespeare's sonnets
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William Shakespeare wrote sonnets on a variety of themes. When discussing or referring to Shakespeare's sonnets, it is almost always a reference to the 154 sonnets that were first published all togeth
Thomas Thorpe's edition of the sonnets (1609)
Dedication page from The Sonnets
William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke
Sonnet 30 as a wall poem in Leiden
A Lover's Complaint
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"A Lover's Complaint" is a narrative poem written by William Shakespeare, and published as part of the 1609 quarto of Shakespeare's Sonnets. It was published by Thomas Thorpe.
The first page of "A Lover's Complaint" from Shakespeare's Sonnets, 1609
The first known illustration to "A Lover's Complaint", from John Bell's 1774 edition of Shakespeare's works