7 iconic sonnets of Shakespeare

Sonnet 18 - "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"

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VelveSonnet 29 - "When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes"

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Sonnet 73 - "That time of year thou mayst in me behold"

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Sonnet 116 - "Let me not to the marriage of true minds"

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Sonnet 130 - "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun"

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Sonnet 147 - "My love is as a fever, longing still"

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Sonnet 55 - "Not marble, nor the gilded monuments"

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