The Sonnets of SHAKESPEARE

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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z



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A

  1. As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou grow'st
  2. A woman's face, with Nature's own hand painted
  3. As an unperfect actor on the stage
  4. As a decrepit father takes delight
  5. Against that time, if ever that time come
  6. Against my love shall be as I am now
  7. Ah!wherefore with infection should he live
  8. Alack, what poverty my Muse brings forth
  9. Alas, 'tis true I have gone here and there
  10. Accuse me thus: that I have scanted all

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B

  1. But wherefore do not you a mightier way
  2. Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is look
  3. Being your slave, what should I do but tend
  4. But be contented. awhen that fell arrest
  5. But do thy worst to steal thy self away
  6. Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan
  7. Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press

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C

  1. Canst thou, O cruel!say I love thee not
  2. Cupid laid by his brand, and fell asleep

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D

  1. Devouring time, blunt thou the lion's paws

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E

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F

  1. FROM fairest creatures we desire increase
  2. For shame!deny that thou bear'st love to any
  3. For many a glorious morning have I seen
  4. Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing
  5. From you have I been absent in the spring

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G

No Sonnet

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H

  1. How can I then return in happy plight
  2. How can my Muse want subject to invent
  3. How careful was I when I took my way
  4. How heavy do I journey on the way
  5. How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame
  6. How like a winter hath my absence been
  7. How oft, when thou, my music, music play'st

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I

  1. Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye
  2. If thou survive my well-contented day
  3. If the dull substance of my flesh were thought
  4. If there be nothing new, but that which is
  5. Is it thy will thy image should keep open
  6. I grant thou wert not married to my Muse
  7. I never saw that you did painting need
  8. If my dear love were but the child of state
  9. In the old age black was not counted fair
  10. If thy soul check thee that I come to near
  11. In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes
  12. In loving thee thou know'st I am forsworn

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J

No Sonnet

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K

No Sonnet

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L

  1. Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest
  2. Lo, in the orient when the gracious light
  3. Let those who are in favour with their stars
  4. Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage
  5. Let me confess that we two must be twain
  6. Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore
  7. Let not my love be call'd idolatry
  8. Let me not to the marriaage of true minds
  9. Like as to make our appetites more keen
  10. Love is my sin, and thou dear virtue hate
  11. Lo as a careful huswife runs to catch
  12. Love is too young to know what conscience is

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M

  1. Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly
  2. My glass shall not persuade me I am old
  3. Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stell'd
  4. My mind and heart are at a mortal war
  5. My tongue-tied Muse in manners holds her still
  6. My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming
  7. My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun
  8. My love is as a fever, longing still

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N

  1. Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck
  2. No more be griev'd at that which thou hast done
  3. Not marble nor the guilded monuments
  4. No longer mourn for me whan I am dead
  5. Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul
  6. No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change

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O

  1. O that you are yourself!But, love, you are
  2. O, how thy woth with manners may I sing
  3. O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem
  4. O, lest the world should task you to recite
  5. O, how I faint when I of you do write
  6. Or I shall live your epitaph to make
  7. O truant Muse, what shall be thy amends
  8. O, never say that I was false of heart
  9. O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide
  10. Or whether doth my mind, being crown'd with you
  11. O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power
  12. O, call not me to justify the wrong
  13. O me, what eyes hath Love put in my head
  14. O, from what pow'r hast thou this pow'rful might

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P

  1. Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth

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Q

No Sonnet

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R

No Sonnet

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S

  1. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day
  2. So is it not with me as with that Muse
  3. So am I as the rich whose blessed key
  4. Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not said
  5. Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye
  6. Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea
  7. So are you to my thoughts as food to life
  8. So oft have I invok'd thee for my Muse
  9. Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault
  10. Some glory in their birth, some in their skill
  11. So shall I live, supposing thou art true
  12. Some say thy fault is youth, some wantonness
  13. Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind
  14. So now I have confess'd that he is thine

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T

  1. Those hours that with gentle work did frame
  2. Then let not winter's ragged hand deface
  3. Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts
  4. Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all
  5. Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits
  6. That thou hast her, it is not all my grief
  7. The other two, slight air and purging fire
  8. Thus can my love excuse the slow offence
  9. That god forbid that made me first your slave
  10. Tir'd with all these, for restful death I cry
  11. Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn
  12. Those part of thee that the world's eye doth view
  13. That thou art blam'd shall not be thy defect
  14. That time of year thou mayst in me behold
  15. Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear
  16. Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now
  17. They that have power to hurt and will do none
  18. The forward violet thus did I chide
  19. To me, fair friend, you never can be old
  20. Those lines that I before had writ do lie
  21. That you were once unkind befriends me now
  22. 'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed
  23. Thy gift, thy tables are within my brain
  24. Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame
  25. Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art
  26. Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me
  27. Thou blind fool, love, what dost thou to mine eyes
  28. Two loves I have, of comfort and despair
  29. Those lips that Love's own hand did make
  30. The little love-god, lying once asleep

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U

No Sonnet

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V

No Sonnet

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W

  1. When forty winters shall besiege thy brow
  2. When I do count the clock that tells the time
  3. When I consider everything that grows
  4. Who will beleive my verse in time to come
  5. Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed
  6. How can I then return in happy plight
  7. When in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes
  8. Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day
  9. When most i wink, then do mine eyes best see
  10. What is your substance, whereof are you made
  11. When I have seen my Time's fell hand defaced
  12. Why is my verse so barren of new pride
  13. Whilst I alone did call upon thy aid
  14. Who is it that says most which can say more
  15. Was it the proud full sail of his grteat verse
  16. Why thou shalt be dispos'd to set me light
  17. Where art thou, Muse, that thou forgrt'st so long
  18. When in the chronicle of wasted time
  19. What's in the brain that ink may charecter
  20. What potions have I drunk of Siren tears
  21. Were't aught to me I bore the canopy
  22. Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy Will
  23. When my love swears that she is made of truth

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X

No Sonnet

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Y

  1. Your love and pity doth th' impression fill

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Z

No Sonnet

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