What is your favorite Shakespeare sonnet?

Question

What is your favorite Shakespeare sonnet?

Answer 1

Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer Day

Answer 2

I have to agree with TD that the secret sonnet in R&J is the sweetest of all.  Here it is:

R-- If I profane with my unworthiest hand

This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this:

My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand

To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.

J:-- Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,

Which mannerly devotion shows in this;

For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch,

And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss.

R:-- Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?

J:-- Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.

R:-- O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do;

They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.

J:-- Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake.

R:-- Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take.

Sadly, the play continues... Otherwise maybe 125 about the holy trinity, or the baroque 24.  Of course, `Two households both alike in dignity...' is rather spammy.

Answer 3

dont have one 150 maybe cos we studied it for GCSE

Answer 4

R&J. One of the greatest stories ever told.

Answer 5

The expense of spirit is a crying shame, and so is the price of wine.

Answer 6

By far, Romeo and Juliet. Although...the ending was not to my liking.

Answer 7

I have memorize 18, 27, and 116. It is a very hard decision, but I'm going with Sonnet 27.

Answer 8

I think it's the thirty-fifth one, the one about the roses...on of the thirties.