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 asleep