None of Shakespeare's sonnets have names, only numbers like Sonnet XVIII. The named poems like Venus and Adonis, The rape of Lucrece, and the phoenix and the turtle, are not sonnets
William Shakespeare's sonnets were published first in 1609 under the title "Shake-speare's sonnets". There are 154 sonnets and they are all numbered: Sonnet I, Sonnet II, and so on. Sometimes they are known by their first lines. Shakespeare did not give them names.
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