Shakespeare's Sonnets (1923) Yale/Text

by William Shakespeare

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TO · THE · ONLIE · BEGETTER · OF ·

THESE · INSUING · SONNETS ·

MR. W. H. ALL · HAPPINESSE ·

AND · THAT · ETERNITIE · 4

PROMISED ·

BY ·

OUR · EVER-LIVING · POET ·

WISHETH · 8

THE · WELL-WISHING ·

ADVENTURER · IN ·

SETTING ·

FORTH · 12

T. T.

 

1 Onlie begetter: only inspirer (?); cf. n.
3 Mr. W. H.; cf. n.
10–12 Adventurer in setting forth: publisher
13 T. T.; cf. n.

Sonnets (not listed in original)

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

• 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