Shakespeare Online

Who will believe my verse in time to come,
If it were fill'd with your most high deserts?
Though yet, heaven knows, it is but as a tomb
Which hides your life and shows not half your parts.
If I could write the beauty of your eyes
And in fresh numbers number all your graces,
The age to come would say, 'This poet lies;
Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.'
So should my papers, yellow'd with their age,
Be scorn'd, like old men of less truth than tongue,
And your true rights be term'd a poet's rage
And stretched metre of an antique song:
But were some child of yours alive that time,
You should live twice,—in it and in my rhyme.
---Shakespeare Sonnet XVII

If anyone happens to feel the need to read Shakespeare while sitting around on the computer, or to look up anything related, http://absoluteshakespeare.com/ is a good site for that. It has far more than I felt like looking at today, including texts of sonnets and plays.

Alternatively, http://wild-turkey.mit.edu/Shakespeare/ has the text of the plays in a format I like better.. at the least, I appreciate the ability to view the whole play on one page if I so choose.