Containing some of the greatest lyric poems in English literature, Shake-speares Sonnets are not just the easy love sentiments of "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day." Many are bleak cries of emotional distress and spiritual exhaustion. They describe the struggle of love and forgiveness against anguish and despair. It is this tragic portrait of human existence that makes the sonnets immortal, Containg all of Shakespeare's 154 sonnets
