Shakespeare's Sonnets
From Hamlet OnLine
This is an index page for the Shakespeare Sonnets. This work on the Sonnets is in progress, and it will take a while.
The INTRO page is recommended, if you haven't already read it, (and when it's available.)
Click a Sonnet link to go to the page devoted to that Sonnet. If a Sonnet number is not a link it means that Sonnet is not available yet.
The first, and last, lines of each Sonnets are shown, as an aid to identification, if you're looking for a particular one.
The Original Title page 01. SHAKE-SPEARES 07. 1609 |
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The Sonnets Dedication page 01. TO . THE . ONLIE . BEGETTER . OF . 12. FORTH . |
Sonnet 1 : Queen Elizabeth's Sonnet 01. From fairest creatures we desire increase 14. To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee Sonnet 2 01. When forty Winters shall beseige thy brow 14. And see thy blood warm when thou feel'st it cold Sonnet 3 01. Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest 14. Die single and thine Image dies with thee Sonnet 4 01. Unthrifty loveliness why dost thou spend 14. Which used lives th' executor to be Sonnet 5 01. Those hours that with gentle work did frame 14. Leese but their show, their substance still lives sweet Sonnet 6 01. Then let not winter's ragged hand deface 14. To be death's conquest and make worms thine heir Sonnet 7 01. Lo in the Orient when the gracious light 14. Unlook'd on diest unless thou get a son Sonnet 8 01. Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly 14. Sings this to thee thou single wilt prove none Sonnet 9 01. Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye 14. That on himself such murderous shame commits Sonnet 10 01. For shame deny that thou bear'st love to any 14. That beauty still may live in thine or thee Sonnet 11 01. As fast as thou shalt wane so fast thou grow'st 14. Thou shouldst print more, not let that copy die Sonnet 12 01. When I do count the clock that tells the time 14. Save breed to brave him, when he takes thee hence Sonnet 13 01. O that you were your self, but love you are 14. You had a Father, let your Son say so Sonnet 14 01. Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck 14. Thy end is Truth's and Beauty's doom and date Sonnet 15 01. When I consider every thing that grows 14. As he takes from you, I ingraft you new Sonnet 16 01. But wherefore do not you a mightier way 14. And you must live drawn by your own sweet skill Sonnet 17 01. Who will believe my verse in time to come 14. You should live twice in it, and in my rhyme Sonnet 18 : Ophelia's Immortality Sonnet 01. Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day 14. So long lives this, and this gives life to thee Sonnet 19 01. Devouring time, blunt thou the Lion's paws 14. My love shall in my verse ever live young Sonnet 20 01. A woman's face with nature's own hand painted 14. Mine be thy love and thy love's use their treasure Sonnet 21 01. So is it not with me as with that Muse 14. I will not praise that purpose not to sell Sonnet 22 01. My glass shall not persuade me I am old 14. Thou gavest me thine not to give back again Sonnet 23 01. As an unperfect actor on the stage 14. To hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit Sonnet 24 01. Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stelled 14. They draw but what they see, know not the heart Sonnet 25 01. Let those who are in favor with their stars 14. Where I may not remove, nor be removed Sonnet 26 01. Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage 14. Till then, not show my head where thou mayst prove me Sonnet 27 01. Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed 14. For thee, and for myself, no quiet find Sonnet 28 01. How can I then return in happy plight 14. And night doth nightly make grief's length seem stronger Sonnet 29 01. When in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes 14. That then I scorn to change my state with Kings Sonnet 30 01. When to the Sessions of sweet silent thought 14. All losses are restored and sorrows end Sonnet 31 01. Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts 14. And thou (all they) hast all the all of me Sonnet 32 01. If thou survive my well-contented day 14. Theirs for their style I'll read, his for his love Sonnet 33 : Hamnet's Death Sonnet 01. Full many a glorious morning have I seen 14. Suns of the world may stain, when heaven's sun staineth Sonnet 34 : Hamnet's Funeral Sonnet 01. Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day 14. And they are rich, and ransom all ill deeds Sonnet 35 01. No more be griev'd at that which thou hast done 14. To that sweet thief which sourly robs from me Sonnet 36 01. Let me confess that we two must be twain 14. As thou being mine, mine is thy good report Sonnet 37 01. As a decrepit father takes delight 14. This wish I have, then ten times happy me Sonnet 38 01. How can my Muse want subject to invent 14. The pain be mine, but thine shall be the praise Sonnet 39 01. Oh how thy worth with manners may I sing 14. By praising him here who doth hence remain Sonnet 40 01. Take all my loves, my love, yea take them all 14. Kill me with spites yet we must not be foes Sonnet 41 01. Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits 14. Thine by thy beauty being false to me Sonnet 42 01. That thou hast her it is not all my grief 14. Sweet flattery, then she loves but me alone Sonnet 43 01. When most I wink then do mine eyes best see 14. And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me Sonnet 44 01. If the dull substance of my flesh were thought 14. But heavy tears, badges of either's woe Sonnet 45 01. The other two, slight air, and purging fire 14. I send them back again and straight grow sad Sonnet 46 01. Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war 14. And my heart's right, their inward love of heart Sonnet 47 01. Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took 14. Awakes my heart, to heart's and eye's delight Sonnet 48 01. How careful was I when I took my way 14. For truth proves thievish for a prize so dear Sonnet 49 01. Against that time (if ever that time come) 14. Since why to love, I can allege no cause Sonnet 50 01. How heavy do I journey on the way 14. My grief lies onward and my joy behind Sonnet 51 01. Thus can my love excuse the slow offense 14. Towards thee I'll run, and give him leave to go Sonnet 52 01. So am I as the rich whose blessed key 14. Being had to triumph, being lacked to hope Sonnet 53 01. What is your substance, whereof are you made 14. But you like none, none you for constant heart Sonnet 54 01. Oh how much more doth beauty beauteous seem 14. When that shall vade, by verse distils your truth Sonnet 55 : Hamnet's Memorial Sonnet 01. Not marble, nor the gilded monuments 14. You live in this, and dwell in lover's eyes Sonnet 56 01. Sweet love renew thy force, be it not said 14. Makes Summer's welcome, thrice more wish'd, more rare Sonnet 57 01. Being your slave what should I do but tend 14. (Though you do any thing) he thinks no ill Sonnet 58 01. That God forbid, that made me first your slave 14. Not blame your pleasure be it ill or well Sonnet 59 01. If there be nothing new, but that which is 14. To subjects worse have given admiring praise Sonnet 60 01. Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore 14. Praising thy worth, despite his cruel hand Sonnet 61 01. Is it thy will, thy Image should keep open 14. From me far off, with others all too near Sonnet 62 01. Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye 14. Painting my age with beauty of thy days Sonnet 63 01. Against my love shall be as I am now 14. And they shall live, and he in them still green Sonnet 64 01. When I have seen by time's fell hand defaced 14. But weep to have, that which it fears to lose Sonnet 65 01. Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea 14. That in black ink my love may still shine bright Sonnet 66 01. Tir'd with all these for restful death I cry 14. Save that to die, I leave my love alone Sonnet 67 01. Ah wherefore with infection should he live 14. In days long since, before these last so bad Sonnet 68 01. Thus is his cheek the map of days out-worn 14. To show false Art what beauty was of yore Sonnet 69 : Ophelia's Beautiful Mind Sonnet 01. Those parts of thee that the world's eye doth view 14. The folly is this, that thou dost common grow Sonnet 70 : Ophelia's Love Sonnet 01. That thou are blam'd shall not be thy defect 14. Then thou alone kingdoms of hearts shouldst owe... (love) Sonnet 71 01. No longer mourn for me when I am dead 14. And mock you with me after I am gone Sonnet 72 01. O lest the world should task you to recite 14. And so should you, to love things nothing worth Sonnet 73 01. That time of year thou mayst in me behold 14. To love that well, which thou must leave ere long Sonnet 74 01. But be contented when that fell arrest 14. And that is this, and this with thee remains Sonnet 75 01. So are you to my thoughts as food to life 14. Or gluttoning on all, or all away Sonnet 76 01. Why is my verse so barren of new pride 14. So is my love still telling what is told Sonnet 77 01. Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear 14. Shall profit thee and much enrich thy book |
Sonnet 78 01. So oft have I invok'd thee for my Muse 14. As high as learning, my rude ignorance Sonnet 79 01. Whilst I alone did call upon thy aid 14. Since what he owes thee, thou thyself dost pay Sonnet 80 01. O how I faint when I of you do write 14. The worst was this, my love was my decay Sonnet 81 01. Or I shall live your Epitaph to make 14. Where breath most breathes, even in the mouths of men Sonnet 82 01. I grant thou wert not married to my Muse 14. Where cheeks need blood, in thee it is abus'd Sonnet 83 01. I never saw that you did painting need 14. Than both your Poets can in praise devise Sonnet 84 01. Who is it that says most, which can say more 14. Being fond on praise, which makes your praises worse Sonnet 85 01. My tongue-tied Muse in manners holds her still 14. Me for my dumb thoughts, speaking in effect Sonnet 86 01. Was it the proud full sail of his great verse 14. Then lacked I matter, that enfeebled mine Sonnet 87 01. Farewell thou art too dear for my possessing 14. In sleep a King, but waking no such matter Sonnet 88 01. When thou shalt be disposed to set me light 14. That for thy right, my self will bear all wrong Sonnet 89 01. Say that thou did forsake me for some fault 14. For I must ne'er love him whom thou dost hate Sonnet 90 01. Then hate me when thou wilt, if ever, now 14. Compar'd with loss of thee, will not seem so Sonnet 91 01. Some glory in their birth, some in their skill 14. All this away, and me most wretched make Sonnet 92 01. But do they worst to steal thy self away 14. Thou mayst be false, and yet I know it not Sonnet 93 01. So shall I live, supposing thou art true 14. If thy sweet virtue answer not thy show Sonnet 94 01. They that have power to hurt, and will do none 14. Lilies that fester, smell far worse than weeds Sonnet 95 01. How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame 14. The hardest knife ill us'd doth lose his edge Sonnet 96 01. Some say thy fault is youth, some wantonness 14. As thou being mine, mine is thy good report Sonnet 97 01. How like a winter hath my absence been 14. That leaves look pale, dreading the winter's near Sonnet 98 01. From you have I been absent in the spring 14. As with your shadow I with these did play Sonnet 99 : Ophelia's Flowers Sonnet (15 lines) 00. The forward violet thus did I chide 14. But sweet, or color it had stolen from thee Sonnet 100 01. Where art thou Muse that thou forgetst so long 14. So thou prevents his scythe, and crooked knife Sonnet 101 01. Oh truant Muse what shall be thy amends 14. To make him seem long hence, as he shows now Sonnet 102 01. My love is strengthened though more weak in seeming 14. Because I would not dull you with my tongue Sonnet 103 01. Alack what poverty my Muse brings forth 14. Your own glass shows you, when you look in it Sonnet 104 01. To me fair friend you never can be old 14. Ere you were born was beauty's summer dead Sonnet 105 01. Let not my love be call'd Idolatry 14. Which three till now, never kept seat in one Sonnet 106 01. When in the Chronicle of wasted time 14. Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise Sonnet 107 01. Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul 14. When tyrant's crests and tombs of brass are spent Sonnet 108 01. What's in the brain that Ink may character 14. Where time and outward form would show it dead Sonnet 109 01. O never say that I was false of heart 14. Save thou my Rose, in it thou art my all Sonnet 110 01. Alas 'tis true, I have gone here and there 14. Even to thy pure and most most loving breast Sonnet 111 01. O for my sake do you with fortune chide 14. Even that your pity is enough to cure me Sonnet 112 01. Your love and pity doth th' impression fill 14. That all the world besides me thinks y'are dead Sonnet 113 01. Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind 14. My most true mind thus maketh mine untrue Sonnet 114 01. Or whether doth my mind being crown'd with you 14. That mine eye loves it and doth first begin Sonnet 115 01. Those lines that I before have writ do lie 14. To give full growth to that which still doth grow Sonnet 116 01. Let me not to the marriage of true minds 14. I never writ, nor no man ever loved Sonnet 117 01. Accuse me thus, that I have scanted all 14. The constancy and virtue of your love Sonnet 118 01. Like as to make our appetites more keen 14. Drugs poison him that so fell sick of you Sonnet 119 01. What potions have I drunk of Siren tears 14. And gain by ills thrice more than I have spent Sonnet 120 01. That you were once unkind befriends me now 14. Mine ransoms yours, and yours must ransom me Sonnet 121 01. 'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed 14. All men are bad and in their badness reign Sonnet 122 01. Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain 14. Were to import forgetfulness in me Sonnet 123 01. No! Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change 14. I will be true despite thy scythe and thee Sonnet 124 01. If my dear love were but the child of state 14. Which die for goodness, who have liv'd for crime Sonnet 125 01. Were 't aught to me I bore the canopy 14. When most impeached, stands least in thy control Sonnet 126 (12 lines) 01. O thou my lovely Boy who in thy power 12. And her Quietus is to render thee Sonnet 127 01. In the old age black was not counted fair 14. That every tongue says beauty should look so Sonnet 128 01. How oft when thou my music music playst 14. Give them their fingers, me thy lips to kiss Sonnet 129 01. Th' expense of Spirit in a waste of shame 14. To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell Sonnet 130 01. My Mistress' eyes are nothing like the Sun 14. As any she beli'd with false compare Sonnet 131 01. Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art 14. And thence this slander as I think proceeds Sonnet 132 01. Thine eyes I love, and they as pitying me 14. And all they foul that thy complexion lack Sonnet 133 01. Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan 14. Perforce am thine and all that is in me Sonnet 134 01. So now I have confessed that he is thine 14. He pays the whole, and yet am I not free Sonnet 135 01. Who ever hath her wish, thou hast thy Will 14. Think all but one, and me in that one Will Sonnet 136 01. If thy soul check thee that I come so near 14. And then thou lovest me for my name is Will Sonnet 137 01. Thou blind fool love, what dost thou to mine eyes 14. And to this false plague are they now transferred Sonnet 138 01. When my love swears that she is made of truth 14. And in our faults by lies we flattered be Sonnet 139 01. O call not me to justify the wrong 14. Kill me outright with looks, and rid my pain Sonnet 140 01. Be wise as thou art cruel, do not press 14. Bear thine eyes straight, though thy proud heart go wide Sonnet 141 01. In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes 14. That she that makes me sin, awards me pain Sonnet 142 01. Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate 14. By self example may'st thou be denied Sonnet 143 01. Lo as a careful housewife runs to catch 14. If thou turn back and my loud crying still Sonnet 144 01. Two loves I have of comfort and despair 14. Till my bad angel fire my good one out Sonnet 145 01. Those lips that Love's own hand did make 14. And sav'd my life saying not you Sonnet 146 01. Poor soul the center of my sinful earth 14. And death once dead, there's no more dying then Sonnet 147 01. My love is as a fever longing still 14. Who art as black as hell, as dark as night Sonnet 148 01. O me! what eyes hath love put in my head 14. Lest eyes well seeing thy foul faults should find Sonnet 149 01. Canst thou O cruel, say I love thee not 14. Those that can see thou lov'st, and I am blind Sonnet 150 01. Oh from what power hast thou this powerful might 14. More worthy I to be belov'd of thee Sonnet 151 01. Love is too young to know what conscience is 14. Her love, for whose dear love I rise and fall Sonnet 152 01. In loving thee thou know'st I am forsworn 14. To swear against the truth so foul a lie Sonnet 153 01. Cupid laid by his brand and fell asleep 14. Where Cupid got new fire, my mistress' eye Sonnet 154 01. The little Love God lying once asleep 14. Love's fire heats water, water cools not love |
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