August 11, 2009

Shakespeare's Sonnets

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