THE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, COMPLETE -- SONNETS

Table of Contents

• 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