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Can anyone name any Shakespeare sonnets which are not love poems?

More specifically, any about children? I don't know if they exist or not, and if they don't, any which are especially beautiful, and not the most well know? I'm making a Christmas present for my mum, of drawings and pictures among other things, and she loves poetry so I thought I'd include some. The pictures are mainly of her children, so poems fitting with that theme would be great. If any other great poems spring to mind, I'd love any suggestions. Thank you. x

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1. When forty winters shall besiege thy brow Sonnet 2 by William Shakespeare When forty winters shall besiege thy brow, And dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field, Thy youth's proud livery so gazed on now, Will be a tattered weed of small worth held. Then being asked, where all thy beauty lies, Where all the treasure of thy lusty days, To say within thine own deep sunken eyes, Were an all-eating shame, and thriftless praise. How much more praise deserved thy beauty's use, If thou couldst answer, "This fair child of mine Shall sum my count, and make my old excuse," Proving his beauty by succession thine. This were to be new made when thou art old, And see thy blood warm when thou feel'st it cold.
2. The first 17 sonnets are encouraging a young man (most people believe the Earl of Southampton) to get married and have children. In the sonnets he says over and over that the object of the poem is beautiful, and it would be a waste not to pass their beauty on to a child. I know it seems strange to pass a poem written to a man on to you mom, but many of the poems are not gender specific and do talk about the joys of passing a part of yourself on to a child so that you can see a part of yourself continuing on. Sonnet 2, 11, 12, and 17 are all good, and relatively vague. Seventeen is probably the best poem, but two might be the best for mom.
3. ; : 0 ) nice question thanks for posting good luck peace !