"My love shall in my verse ever live young." –William Shakespeare William Shakespeare's sonnets are among the best-known poems in the English language, and the verses continue to touch the hearts of readers today. In Shakespeare's Sonnets and Other Poems, readers will find all 154 of the Bard's sonnets, along with his other poetic creations: "Venus and Adonis," "Lucrece," "A Lover's Complaint," "Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music," and "The Phoenix and Turtle."