Shakespeare's Sonnets (1923) Yale/Text



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Sonnets 1–10

 * /Sonnet 1/ – From fairest creatures we desire increase
 * /Sonnet 2/ – When forty winters shall besiege 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

Sonnets 11–20

 * /Sonnet 11/ – As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou grow'st
 * /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 judgement pluck
 * /Sonnet 15/ – When I consider everything 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

Sonnets 21–30

 * /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

Sonnets 31–40

 * /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 griev'd 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

Sonnets 41–50

 * /Sonnet 41/ – Those pretty 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

Sonnets 51–60

 * /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

Sonnets 61–70

 * /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 defac'd
 * /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 blam'd shall not be thy defect

Sonnets 71–80

 * /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 invok'd 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

Sonnets 81–90

 * /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 dispos'd 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

Sonnets 91–100

 * /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

Sonnets 101–110

 * /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

Sonnets 111–120

 * /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

Sonnets 121–130

 * /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/ – In the old age black was not counted fair
 * /Sonnet 128/ – How 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

Sonnets 131–140

 * /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 check 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

Sonnets 141–150

 * /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

Sonnets 151–154
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 * /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 asleep