O me what eyes hath Love put in my head (Sonnet 148)

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O me what eyes hath Love put in my head (Sonnet 148)

William Shakespeare

1564 – 1616

O me, what eyes hath Love put in my head,
Which have no correspondence with true sight!
Or, if the have, where is my judgement fled,
That censures falsely what they see aright?
If that be fair whereon my false eyes dote,
What means the world to say it is not so?
If it be not, then love doth well denote
Love’s eye is not so true as all men’s ‘No.’
How can it? O, how can Love’s eye be true,
That is so vex’d with watching and with tears?
No marvel then, though I mistake my view;
The sun itself sees not till heaven clears.
O cunning Love! with tears thou keep’st me blind.
Lest eyes well-seeing thy foul faults should find.

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William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist

The little love-god lying once asleep (Sonnet 154) by William Shakespeare

In loving thee thou knowst I am forsworn (Sonnet 152)

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In loving thee thou knowst I am forsworn (Sonnet 152)

William Shakespeare

1564 – 1616

In loving thee thou know’st I am forsworn,
But thou art twice forsworn, to me love swearing.
In act thy bed-vow broke and new faith torn
In vowing new hate after new love bearing.
But why of two oaths’ breach do I accuse thee,
Why I break twenty? I am perjured most;
For all my vows are oaths but to misuse thee
And all my honest faith in thee is lost,
For I have sworn deep oaths of thy deep kindness,
Oaths of thy love, thy truth, thy constancy,
And, to enlighten thee, gave eyes to blindness,
Or made them swear against the thing they see;
For I have sworn thee fair; more perjured I,
To swear against the truth so foul a lie!

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William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist

The little love-god lying once asleep (Sonnet 154) by William Shakespeare

My Love is as a Fever Longing Still (Sonnet 147)

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My Love is as a Fever Longing Still (Sonnet 147)

William Shakespeare

1564 – 1616

My love is as a fever, longing still
For that which longer nurseth the disease;
Feeding on that which doth preserve the sill,
The uncertain sickly appetite to please.
My reason, the physician to my love,
Angry that his prescriptions are not kept,
Hath left me, and I desperate now approve
Desire is death, which physic did except.
Past cure I am, now reason is past care,
And frantic-mad with evermore unrest;
My thoughts and my discourse as madmen’s are,
At random from the truth vainly express’d;
For I have sworn thee fair and thought thee bright,
Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.

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William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist

The little love-god lying once asleep (Sonnet 154) by William Shakespeare

Cupid laid by his brand and fell asleep (Sonnet 153)

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Cupid laid by his brand and fell asleep (Sonnet 153)

William Shakespeare

1564 – 1616

Cupid laid by his brand, and fell asleep:
A maid of Dian’s this advantage found,
And his love-kindling fire did quickly steep
In a cold valley-fountain of that ground;
Which borrow’d from this holy fire of Love
A dateless lively heat, still to endure,
And grew a seething bath, which yet men prove
Against strange maladies a sovereign cure.
But at my mistress’ eye Love’s brand new-fired,
The boy for trial needs would touch my breast;
I, sick withal, the help of bath desired,
And thither hied, a sad distemper’d guest,
But found no cure: the bath for my help lies
Where Cupid got new fire—my mistress’ eyes.

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William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist

The little love-god lying once asleep (Sonnet 154) by William Shakespeare
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Those lips that Loves own hand did make (Sonnet 145)

by | Dec 9, 2025 | Shakespeare sonnets, Poems, William Shakespeare

Those lips that Loves own hand did make (Sonnet 145)

William Shakespeare

1564 – 1616

Those lips that Love’s own hand did make
Breathed forth the sound that said ‘I hate’
To me that languish’d for her sake;
But when she saw my woeful state,
Straight in her heart did mercy come,
Chiding that tongue that ever sweet
Was used in giving gentle doom,
And taught it thus anew to greet;
‘I hate’ she alter’d with an end,
That follow’d it as gentle day
Doth follow night, who like a fiend
From heaven to hell is flown away;
‘I hate’ from hate away she threw,
And saved my life, saying ‘not you.’

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William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist

The little love-god lying once asleep (Sonnet 154) by William Shakespeare

Two loves I have of comfort and despair (Sonnet 144)

by | Dec 9, 2025 | William Shakespeare, Poems, Shakespeare sonnets

Two loves I have of comfort and despair (Sonnet 144)

William Shakespeare

1564 – 1616

Two loves I have of comfort and despair,
Which like two spirits do suggest me still:
The better angel is a man right fair,
The worser spirit a woman colour’d ill.
To win me soon to hell, my female evil
Tempteth my better angel from my side,
And would corrupt my saint to bea devil,
Wooing his purity with her foul pride.
And whether that my angel be turn’d fiend
Suspect I may, yet not directly tell;
But being both from me, both to each friend,
I guess one angel in another’s hell:
Yet this shall I ne’er know, but live in doubt,
Till my bad angel fire my good one out.

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William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist

The little love-god lying once asleep (Sonnet 154) by William Shakespeare

The little love-god lying once asleep (Sonnet 154)

by | Dec 9, 2025 | William Shakespeare, Poems, Shakespeare sonnets

The little love-god lying once asleep (Sonnet 154) by William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

1564 – 1616

The little love-god lying once asleep
Laid by his side his heart-inflaming brand,
Whilst many nymphs that vow’d chaste life to keep
Came tripping by; but in her maiden hand
The fairest votary took up that fire
Which many legions of true hearts had warm’d;
And so the general of hot desire
What sleeping by a virgin hand disarm’d.
This brand she quenched in a cool well by,
Which from Love’s fire took heat perpetual,
Growing a bath and healthful remedy
For men diseased; but I, my mistress’ thrall,
Came there for cure, and this by that I prove,
Love’s fire heats water, water cools not love.

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William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist

The little love-god lying once asleep (Sonnet 154) by William Shakespeare
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Equivocal: Ambiguous and Uncertain

Equivocal: Ambiguous and Uncertain

by | Dec 9, 2025 | Emerald Book Club, Vocabulary

Word of The Day

Equivocal

(adjective) primarily means open to more than one interpretation or of an uncertain nature. It can apply to words, statements, actions, or results.

📘 Definitions

open to more than one interpretation; ambiguous.
uncertain or questionable in nature.
of doubtful signification

not clear and seeming to have two opposing meanings, or confusing and able to be understood in two different ways.

✍️ Example Sentence

My Partners response to contributing an equivalent amount for our bills was equivocal

Origin and History

“of doubtful signification, capable of being understood in different senses,” c. 1600, with -al (1) + Late Latin aequivocus “of identical sound, of equal voice, of equal significance, ambiguous, of like sound,” past participle of aequivocare. This is from aequus “equal” (see equal (adj.)) + vocare “to call,” which is related to vox (genitive vocis) “voice” (from PIE root *wekw- “to speak”).
Earlier in same sense was equivoque (late 14c.). Its opposite is univocal. Related: Equivocally (1570s).

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Death by Brandi Young

by | Dec 8, 2025 | Death Poems, Poems, Poetry

Death Poem by Brandi Young

Death is forever
So don’t flirt with suicide

Death is painful
Stay away from knives

Death is not for lovers
So don’t lie

Death is not for me
So don’t even try

Death is clever
So be careful

Death is never fun
Stay away from strangers

Death is never pleasing
So don’t get caught up in the hype

Death is never fair
So get use to it

Death is always occurring
So don’t ignore it

Death is never what you expected
Sorry but it has to happen

Death is not for you
Please don’t give up

Death is forever
Don’t forget it

I Want To Die

by | Dec 8, 2025 | Death Poems, Life Poems, Poems

I Want To Die Poem by Abdul Wahab

Heavenly cursed and heavily sinned I
No more i like to add them, so, I want to die
And I want to become a holy ghost
Whom the people would like the most.
Like the retreating soldiers I like to come back
To my own permanent and eternal home
You may call it a suicide or martyrdom.

In my real home I see the news
Coming from the lipstick coated lips
In the television of my molten death
People are sobbing with a heavy breath.
The atmosphere is heavy and they feel the pain
This thrills me and gives a feeling of gain.

The only son of my father
The only darling of my mother
Fainted repeatedly on the cushion
Peal like tear drops coming from my beloved son,
Friends and relatives express grief in the community hall,
All these excite me and I sought to say” I love you all.”

For the first time in my life in my last ritual I listen
From those men that I was really a very very good man.
In such intense atmosphere of gloom and sad
My heart cheers and I become too much glad.

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