Questions

This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.

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shakespeare-sonnets_03For where is she so fair whose unear''d womb Disdains the tillage of thy husbandry?
shakespeare-sonnets_03Or who is he so fond will be the tomb, Of his self- love to stop posterity?
shakespeare-sonnets_04Profitless usurer, why dost thou use So great a sum of sums, yet canst not live?
shakespeare-sonnets_04Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend Upon thy self thy beauty''s legacy?
shakespeare-sonnets_08Music to hear, why hear''st thou music sadly?
shakespeare-sonnets_08Music to hear, why hear''st thou music sadly?
shakespeare-sonnets_08Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy: Why lov''st thou that which thou receiv''st not gladly, Or else receiv''st with pleasure thine annoy?
shakespeare-sonnets_09Is it for fear to wet a widow''s eye Is it for fear to wet a widow''s eye, That thou consum''st thy self in single life?
shakespeare-sonnets_100C. Where art thou Muse that thou forget''st so long Where art thou Muse that thou forget''st so long, To speak of that which gives thee all thy might?
shakespeare-sonnets_100Spend''st thou thy fury on some worthless song, Darkening thy power to lend base subjects light?
shakespeare-sonnets_101Because he needs no praise, wilt thou be dumb?
shakespeare-sonnets_101O truant Muse what shall be thy amends O truant Muse what shall be thy amends For thy neglect of truth in beauty dy''d?
shakespeare-sonnets_103Were it not sinful then, striving to mend, To mar the subject that before was well?
shakespeare-sonnets_108What''s in the brain, that ink may character What''s in the brain, that ink may character, Which hath not figur''d to thee my true spirit?
shakespeare-sonnets_108What''s new to speak, what now to register, That may express my love, or thy dear merit?
shakespeare-sonnets_10change thy thought, that I may change my mind: Shall hate be fairer lodg''d than gentle love?
shakespeare-sonnets_114Or whether doth my mind, being crown''d with you Or whether doth my mind, being crown''d with you, Drink up the monarch''s plague, this flattery?
shakespeare-sonnets_115Love is a babe, then might I not say so, To give full growth to that which still doth grow?
shakespeare-sonnets_121Or on my frailties why are frailer spies, Which in their wills count bad what I think good?
shakespeare-sonnets_133Is''t not enough to torture me alone, But slave to slavery my sweet''st friend must be?
shakespeare-sonnets_135Shall will in others seem right gracious, And in my will no fair acceptance shine?
shakespeare-sonnets_135Wilt thou, whose will is large and spacious, Not once vouchsafe to hide my will in thine?
shakespeare-sonnets_137Or mine eyes, seeing this, say this is not, To put fair truth upon so foul a face?
shakespeare-sonnets_137Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes, That they behold, and see not what they see?
shakespeare-sonnets_137Why should my heart think that a several plot, Which my heart knows the wide world''s common place?
shakespeare-sonnets_138And wherefore say not I that I am old?
shakespeare-sonnets_146Is this thy body''s end?
shakespeare-sonnets_146Shall worms, inheritors of this excess, Eat up thy charge?
shakespeare-sonnets_146Why so large cost, having so short a lease, Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend?
shakespeare-sonnets_148If it be not, then love doth well denote Love''s eye is not so true as all men''s: no, How can it?
shakespeare-sonnets_148If that be fair whereon my false eyes dote, What means the world to say it is not so?
shakespeare-sonnets_148how can Love''s eye be true, That is so vexed with watching and with tears?
shakespeare-sonnets_149Do I not think on thee, when I forgot Am of my self, all tyrant, for thy sake?
shakespeare-sonnets_149say I love thee not, When I against myself with thee partake?
shakespeare-sonnets_150To make me give the lie to my true sight, And swear that brightness doth not grace the day?
shakespeare-sonnets_150Who taught thee how to make me love thee more, The more I hear and see just cause of hate?
shakespeare-sonnets_150from what power hast thou this powerful might, With insufficiency my heart to sway?
shakespeare-sonnets_151Love is too young to know what conscience is Love is too young to know what conscience is, Yet who knows not conscience is born of love?
shakespeare-sonnets_16And fortify your self in your decay With means more blessed than my barren rhyme?
shakespeare-sonnets_16But wherefore do not you a mightier way But wherefore do not you a mightier way Make war upon this bloody tyrant, Time?
shakespeare-sonnets_17Who will believe my verse in time to come Who will believe my verse in time to come, If it were fill''d with your most high deserts?
shakespeare-sonnets_18Shall I compare thee to a summer''s day?
shakespeare-sonnets_18Shall I compare thee to a summer''s day?
shakespeare-sonnets_28How can I then return in happy plight How can I then return in happy plight, That amdebarre''d the benefit of rest?
shakespeare-sonnets_39And what is''t but mine own when I praise thee?
shakespeare-sonnets_39What can mine own praise to mine own self bring?
shakespeare-sonnets_39how thy worth with manners may I sing, When thou art all the better part of me?
shakespeare-sonnets_40Take all my loves, my love, yea take them all Take all my loves, my love, yea take them all; What hast thou then more than thou hadst before?
shakespeare-sonnets_51what excuse will my poor beast then find, When swift extremity can seem but slow?
shakespeare-sonnets_53What is your substance, whereof are you made What is your substance, whereof are you made, That millions of strange shadows on you tend?
shakespeare-sonnets_57Being your slave what should I do but tend Being your slave what should I do but tend, Upon the hours, and times of your desire?
shakespeare-sonnets_61Dost thou desire my slumbers should be broken, While shadows like to thee do mock my sight?
shakespeare-sonnets_61Is it thy will, thy image should keep open Is it thy will, thy image should keep open My heavy eyelids to the weary night?
shakespeare-sonnets_65Or what strong hand can hold his swift foot back?
shakespeare-sonnets_65Or who his spoil of beauty can forbid?
shakespeare-sonnets_65where, alack, Shall Time''s best jewel from Time''s chest lie hid?
shakespeare-sonnets_67Why should false painting imitate his cheek, And steel dead seeming of his living hue?
shakespeare-sonnets_67Why should he live, now Nature bankrupt is, Beggar''d of blood to blush through lively veins?
shakespeare-sonnets_67Why should poor beauty indirectly seek Roses of shadow, since his rose is true?
shakespeare-sonnets_76Why is my verse so barren of new pride Why is my verse so barren of new pride, So far from variation or quick change?
shakespeare-sonnets_76Why with the time do I not glance aside To new- found methods, and to compounds strange?
shakespeare-sonnets_84Who is it that says most, which can say more Who is it that says most, which can say more, Than this rich praise,--that you alone, are you?
shakespeare-sonnets_86Was it his spirit, by spirits taught to write, Above a mortal pitch, that struck me dead?
shakespeare-sonnets_87And for that riches where is my deserving?
shakespeare-sonnets_87For how do I hold thee but by thy granting?
shakespeare-sonnets_92But what''s so blessed- fair that fears no blot?