In the poem about her "and Adonis", Shakespeare wrote, "Her lips are conquerors, his lips obey"
Although Shakespeare's Sonnets were among the first of his poetic .... 
yet never filleth;Her lips are conquerors, his lips obey,Paying what ransom the... [DOC] [TLE] Lodge, Shakespeare and Marlowe - Renaissance Poetry and Prose ... [PAR] Venus and Adonis was the first of Shakespeare's poems to be published, under 
his own name ... suggests that it was written in the spirit of literary rivalry in 
response to a less skilled poem on this theme.