The Sonnets, by William Shakespeare
- 1: From fairest creatures we desire increase
- 2: When forty winters shall besiege thy brow
- 3: Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest
- 4: Unthrifty loveliness why dost thou spend
- 5: Those hours that with gentle work did frame
- 6: Then let not winter's ragged hand deface
- 7: Lo in the orient when the gracious light
- 8: Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly
- 9: Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye
- 10: For shame deny that thou bear'st love to any
- 11: As fast as thou shalt wane so fast thou grow'st
- 12: When I do count the clock that tells the time
- 13: O that you were your self, but love you are
- 14: Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck
- 15: When I consider every thing that grows
- 16: But wherefore do not you a mightier way
- 17: Who will believe my verse in time to come
- 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day
- 19: Devouring Time blunt thou the lion's paws
- 20: A woman's face with nature's own hand painted
- 21: So is it not with me as with that muse
- 22: My glass shall not persuade me I am old
- 23: As an unperfect actor on the stage
- 24: Mine eye hath played the painter and hath stelled
- 25: Let those who are in favour with their stars
- 26: Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage
- 27: Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed
- 28: How can I then return in happy plight
- 29: When in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes
- 30: When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
- 31: Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts
- 32: If thou survive my well-contented day
- 33: Full many a glorious morning have I seen
- 34: Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day
- 35: No more be grieved at that which thou hast done
- 36: Let me confess that we two must be twain
- 37: As a decrepit father takes delight
- 38: How can my muse want subject to invent
- 39: O how thy worth with manners may I sing
- 40: Take all my loves, my love, yea take them all
- 41: Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits
- 42: That thou hast her it is not all my grief
- 43: When most I wink then do mine eyes best see
- 44: If the dull substance of my flesh were thought
- 45: The other two, slight air, and purging fire
- 46: Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war
- 47: Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took
- 48: How careful was I when I took my way
- 49: Against that time (if ever that time come)
- 50: How heavy do I journey on the way
- 51: Thus can my love excuse the slow offence
- 52: So am I as the rich whose blessed key
- 53: What is your substance, whereof are you made
- 54: O how much more doth beauty beauteous seem
- 55: Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
- 56: Sweet love renew thy force, be it not said
- 57: Being your slave what should I do but tend
- 58: That god forbid, that made me first your slave
- 59: If there be nothing new, but that which is
- 60: Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore
- 61: Is it thy will, thy image should keep open
- 62: Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye
- 63: Against my love shall be as I am now
- 64: When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced
- 65: Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea
- 66: Tired with all these for restful death I cry
- 67: Ah wherefore with infection should he live
- 68: Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn
- 69: Those parts of thee that the world's eye doth view
- 70: That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect
- 71: No longer mourn for me when I am dead
- 72: O lest the world should task you to recite
- 73: That time of year thou mayst in me behold
- 74: But be contented when that fell arrest
- 75: So are you to my thoughts as food to life
- 76: Why is my verse so barren of new pride
- 77: Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear
- 78: So oft have I invoked thee for my muse
- 79: Whilst I alone did call upon thy aid
- 80: O how I faint when I of you do write
- 81: Or I shall live your epitaph to make
- 82: I grant thou wert not married to my muse
- 83: I never saw that you did painting need
- 84: Who is it that says most, which can say more
- 85: My tongue-tied muse in manners holds her still
- 86: Was it the proud full sail of his great verse
- 87: Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing
- 88: When thou shalt be disposed to set me light
- 89: Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault
- 90: Then hate me when thou wilt, if ever, now
- 91: Some glory in their birth, some in their skill
- 92: But do thy worst to steal thy self away
- 93: So shall I live, supposing thou art true
- 94: They that have power to hurt, and will do none
- 95: How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame
- 96: Some say thy fault is youth, some wantonness
- 97: How like a winter hath my absence been
- 98: From you have I been absent in the spring
- 99: The forward violet thus did I chide
- 100: Where art thou Muse that thou forget'st so long
- 101: O truant Muse what shall be thy amends
- 102: My love is strengthened though more weak in seeming
- 103: Alack what poverty my muse brings forth
- 104: To me fair friend you never can be old
- 105: Let not my love be called idolatry
- 106: When in the chronicle of wasted time
- 107: Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul
- 108: What's in the brain that ink may character
- 109: O never say that I was false of heart
- 110: Alas 'tis true, I have gone here and there
- 111: O for my sake do you with Fortune chide
- 112: Your love and pity doth th' impression fill
- 113: Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind
- 114: Or whether doth my mind being crowned with you
- 115: Those lines that I before have writ do lie
- 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds
- 117: Accuse me thus, that I have scanted all
- 118: Like as to make our appetite more keen
- 119: What potions have I drunk of Siren tears
- 120: That you were once unkind befriends me now
- 121: 'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed
- 122: Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain
- 123: No! Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change
- 124: If my dear love were but the child of state
- 125: Were't aught to me I bore the canopy
- 126: O thou my lovely boy who in thy power
- 127: In the old age black was not counted fair
- 128: How oft when thou, my music, music play'st
- 129: Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame
- 130: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun
- 131: Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art
- 132: Thine eyes I love, and they as pitying me
- 133: Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan
- 134: So now I have confessed that he is thine
- 135: Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy will
- 136: If thy soul check thee that I come so near
- 137: Thou blind fool Love, what dost thou to mine eyes
- 138: When my love swears that she is made of truth
- 139: O call not me to justify the wrong
- 140: Be wise as thou art cruel, do not press
- 141: In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes
- 142: Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate
- 143: Lo as a careful huswife runs to catch
- 144: Two loves I have of comfort and despair
- 145: Those lips that Love's own hand did make
- 146: Poor soul the centre of my sinful earth
- 147: My love is as a fever longing still
- 148: O me! what eyes hath love put in my head
- 149: Canst thou O cruel, say I love thee not
- 150: O from what power hast thou this powerful might
- 151: Love is too young to know what conscience is
- 152: In loving thee thou know'st I am forsworn
- 153: Cupid laid by his brand and fell asleep
- 154: The little Love-god lying once asleep
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