# Result number

Work The work is either a play, poem, or sonnet. The sonnets are treated as single work with 154 parts.

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1

Phoenix and the Turtle

Shakespeare

1

Let the bird of loudest lay,
On the sole Arabian tree,
Herald sad and trumpet be,
To whose sound chaste wings obey.

2

Phoenix and the Turtle

Shakespeare

5

But thou shrieking harbinger,
Foul precurrer of the fiend,
Augur of the fever's end,
To this troop come thou not near!

3

Phoenix and the Turtle

Shakespeare

41

Reason, in itself confounded,
Saw division grow together,
To themselves yet either neither,
Simple were so well compounded,

4

Phoenix and the Turtle

Shakespeare

49

Whereupon it made this threne
To the phoenix and the dove,
Co-supremes and stars of love,
As chorus to their tragic scene.

5

Phoenix and the Turtle

Shakespeare

57

Death is now the phoenix' nest
And the turtle's loyal breast
To eternity doth rest,

6

Phoenix and the Turtle

Shakespeare

66

To this urn let those repair
That are either true or fair
For these dead birds sigh a prayer.