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Shakespeare did not give these poems titles. When they were published, they were just given numbers in the order they were set out in that book. The Sonnets are also known by their first lines.

We are only talking about Shakespeare's sonnets here, of course. Other people are at liberty to give their sonnets titles if they want to.

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