Shakespeare's Sonnets is the title of a collection of 154 sonnets by William Shakespeare, which covers themes such as the passage of time, love, beauty and mortality.
The first 126 sonnets are addressed to a young man; the last 28 to a woman.
The sonnets were first published in a 1609 quarto with the full stylized title: SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS.
Never before Imprinted.
(although sonnets 138 and 144 had previously been published in the 1599 miscellany The Passionat.
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