June, 2026

• 4 June

  William Shakespeare: A Madrigal

  

  William Shakespeare: A Madrigal William Shakespeare: A Madrigal Crabbed Age and Youth Cannot live together: Youth is full of pleasance, Age is full of care; Youth like summer morn, Age like winter weather; Youth like summer brave, Age like winter bare: Youth is full of sports, Age’s breath is short, …

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• 4 June

  William Shakespeare: Fairy Land I

  

  William Shakespeare: Fairy Land I William Shakespeare: Fairy Land I OVER hill, over dale,    Thorough bush, thorough brier,    Over park, over pale,    Thorough flood, thorough fire,    I do wander everywhere,    Swifter than the moone’s sphere;    And I serve the fairy queen,    To dew her orbs upon the green:    The cowslips …

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• 4 June

  William Shakespeare: Sonnet 138

  

  William Shakespeare: Sonnet 138 When My Love Swears That She Is Made Of Truth William Shakespeare: Sonnet 138 When My Love Swears That She Is Made Of Truth When my love swears that she is made of truth I do believe her, though I know she lies, That she might …

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• 4 June

  William Shakespeare: Dirge

  

  William Shakespeare: Dirge William Shakespeare: Dirge COME away, come away, death,    And in sad cypres let me be laid; Fly away, fly away, breath;    I am slain by a fair cruel maid. My shroud of white, stuck all with yew,    O prepare it! My part of death, no one so …

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• 4 June

  William Shakespeare: Full Fathom Five

  

  William Shakespeare: Full Fathom Five Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: Ding-dong. Hark! now I hear …

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• 4 June

  William Shakespeare: Hark! Hark! The Lark

  

  William Shakespeare: Hark! Hark! The Lark William Shakespeare: Hark! Hark! The Lark Hark! hark! the lark at heaven’s gate sings, And Phoebus ‘gins arise, His steeds to water at those springs On chalic’d flowers that lies; And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes; With everything that pretty is, …

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• 4 June

  William Shakespeare: Sonnet 116

  

  William Shakespeare: Sonnet 116 Let Me Not To The Marriage Of True Minds William Shakespeare: Sonnet 116  Let Me Not To The Marriage Of True Minds Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with …

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• 4 June

  William Shakespeare: Love

  

  William Shakespeare: Love William Shakespeare: Love TELL me where is Fancy bred, Or in the heart or in the head? How begot, how nourished? Reply, reply. It is engender’d in the eyes, With gazing fed; and Fancy dies In the cradle where it lies. Let us all ring Fancy’s knell: …

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• 4 June

  William Shakespeare: Bridal Song

  

  William Shakespeare: Bridal Song William Shakespeare: Bridal Song ROSES, their sharp spines being gone, Not royal in their smells alone, But in their hue; Maiden pinks, of odour faint, Daisies smell-less, yet most quaint, And sweet thyme true; Primrose, firstborn child of Ver; Merry springtime’s harbinger, With her bells dim; …

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• 4 June

  William Shakespeare: A Lover’s Complaint

  

  William Shakespeare: A Lover’s Complaint William Shakespeare: A Lover’s Complaint FROM off a hill whose concave womb reworded A plaintful story from a sistering vale, My spirits to attend this double voice accorded, And down I laid to list the sad-tuned tale; Ere long espied a fickle maid full pale, …

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