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Shakespeare's Sonnets

The 154 sonnets, on time, beauty, love and the poems' own power to outlast their writer.
  • William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
  • First published 1609
  • Poetry
  • Available online · Awaiting physical preservation
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THE SONNETS by William Shakespeare
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Provenance

Where this text came from, and why it is free to share

Source

First quarto, printed for Thomas Thorpe, London (1609).

Transcribed text: ebook 1041 at www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1041, released there 1997-09-01 (that is the transcription's date, not the book's). Copied 2026-10-30. Its own record says: “Public domain in the USA.”

Checksums (SHA-256): source file d758217844bce61db92d6faeb1d082ddbf9c534a155c6c788318ef7a324bee39; prepared text 01e1594266ce19e5cc4e77c5c3f753fe8165ce3b7b218e54bee3ed159dffc6ee.

Changes to the text

  • The source's header, licence, footer and production credits were removed.
  • Every verse line break was kept.
  • Underscores marking italics were removed.
  • Extra spaces were collapsed.
  • No illustrations were imported; captions stay as text.

Rights

  • First published before 1931: public domain in the United States.
  • The author died before 1956: out of copyright where protection lasts the author's life plus 70 years.

Public domain in the United States (first published 1609); the author died in 1616, so also out of copyright where protection lasts the author's life plus 70 years. Not reviewed country by country beyond that.

Text only. The source's licence, trademark and boilerplate are removed, so the archive does not use the source's name as a mark; the source is cited as provenance.

Reviewed 2026-10-30, batch seed-2026-10. Archive editions credit the original author; Aurelune printed them and claims no rights in the text.