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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Sonnet 27 is one
of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William
Shakespeare. It's a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet
expresses his love towards another person. Sonnet 27 is Shakespeare's
only pangrammic sonnet. Shakespeare's sonnets are 154 poems in sonnet
form written by William Shakespeare that deal with such themes as the
passage of time, love, beauty and mortality. All but two of the poems
were first published in a 1609 quarto entitled SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS.:
Never before imprinted. Sonnets 138 and 144 had previously been
published in a 1599 miscellany entitled The Passionate Pilgrim. The
quarto ends with "A Lover's Complaint", a narrative poem of 47
seven-line stanzas written in rhyme royal.
