Shakespeare's Sonnets
This is an index page for the Shakespeare Sonnets. This work on the Sonnets is in progress, and it will take a while. At the moment, it's rather a mess.
It's recommended you read the INTRO page, if you haven't already.
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 the 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
The Sonnets Dedication page 01. TO . THE . ONLIE . BEGETTER . OF . 12. FORTH .
Sonnet 1 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
<a href="sonnet_011.html">Sonnet 11</a>
01. As fast as thou shalt wane so fast thou grow'st
14. Thou shouldst print more, not let that copy die
<a href="sonnet_012.html">Sonnet 12</a>
01. When I do count the clock that tells the time
14. Save breed to brave him, when he takes thee hence
<a href="sonnet_013.html">Sonnet 13</a>
01. O that you were your self, but love you are
14. You had a Father, let your Son say so
<a href="sonnet_014.html">Sonnet 14</a>
01. Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck
14. Thy end is Truth's and Beauty's doom and date
<a href="sonnet_015.html">Sonnet 15</a>
01. When I consider every thing that grows
14. As he takes from you, I ingraft you new
<a href="sonnet_016.html">Sonnet 16</a>
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
<a href="sonnet_019.html">Sonnet 19</a>
01. Devouring time, blunt thou the Lion's paws
14. My love shall in my verse ever live young
<a href="sonnet_020.html">Sonnet 20</a>
01. A woman's face with nature's own hand painted
14. Mine be thy love and thy love's use their treasure
<a href="sonnet_021.html">Sonnet 21</a>
01. So is it not with me as with that Muse
14. I will not praise that purpose not to sell
<a href="sonnet_022.html">Sonnet 22</a>
01. My glass shall not persuade me I am old
14. Thou gavest me thine not to give back again
<a href="sonnet_023.html">Sonnet 23</a>
01. As an unperfect actor on the stage
14. To hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit
<a href="sonnet_024.html">Sonnet 24</a>
01. Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stelled
14. They draw but what they see, know not the heart
<a href="sonnet_025.html">Sonnet 25</a>
01. Let those who are in favor with their stars
14. Where I may not remove, nor be removed
<a href="sonnet_026.html">Sonnet 26</a>
01. Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage
14. Till then, not show my head where thou mayst prove me
<a href="sonnet_027.html">Sonnet 27</a>
01. Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed
14. For thee, and for myself, no quiet find
<a href="sonnet_028.html">Sonnet 28</a>
01. How can I then return in happy plight
14. And night doth nightly make grief's length seem stronger
<a href="sonnet_029.html">Sonnet 29</a>
01. When in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes
14. That then I scorn to change my state with Kings
<a href="sonnet_030.html">Sonnet 30</a>
01. When to the Sessions of sweet silent thought
14. All losses are restored and sorrows end
<a href="sonnet_031.html">Sonnet 31</a>
01. Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts
14. And thou (all they) hast all the all of me
<a href="sonnet_032.html">Sonnet 32</a>
01. If thou survive my well-contented day
14. Theirs for their style I'll read, his for his love
<a href="sonnet_033.html">Sonnet 33 : Hamnet's Death Sonnet</a>
01. Full many a glorious morning have I seen
14. Suns of the world may stain, when heaven's sun staineth
<a href="sonnet_034.html">Sonnet 34 : Hamnet's Funeral Sonnet</a>
01. Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day
14. And they are rich, and ransom all ill deeds
<a href="sonnet_035.html">Sonnet 35</a>
01. No more be griev'd at that which thou hast done
14. To that sweet thief which sourly robs from me
<a href="sonnet_036.html">Sonnet 36</a>
01. Let me confess that we two must be twain
14. As thou being mine, mine is thy good report
<a href="sonnet_037.html">Sonnet 37</a>
01. As a decrepit father takes delight
14. This wish I have, then ten times happy me
<a href="sonnet_038.html">Sonnet 38</a>
01. How can my Muse want subject to invent
14. The pain be mine, but thine shall be the praise
<a href="sonnet_039.html">Sonnet 39</a>
01. Oh how thy worth with manners may I sing
14. By praising him here who doth hence remain
<a href="sonnet_040.html">Sonnet 40</a>
01. Take all my loves, my love, yea take them all
14. Kill me with spites yet we must not be foes
<a href="sonnet_041.html">Sonnet 41</a>
01. Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits
14. Thine by thy beauty being false to me
<a href="sonnet_042.html">Sonnet 42</a>
01. That thou hast her it is not all my grief
14. Sweet flattery, then she loves but me alone
<a href="sonnet_043.html">Sonnet 43</a>
01. When most I wink then do mine eyes best see
14. And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me
<a href="sonnet_044.html">Sonnet 44</a>
01. If the dull substance of my flesh were thought
14. But heavy tears, badges of either's woe
<a href="sonnet_045.html">Sonnet 45</a>
01. The other two, slight air, and purging fire
14. I send them back again and straight grow sad
<a href="sonnet_046.html">Sonnet 46</a>
01. Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war
14. And my heart's right, their inward love of heart
<a href="sonnet_047.html">Sonnet 47</a>
01. Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took
14. Awakes my heart, to heart's and eye's delight
<a href="sonnet_048.html">Sonnet 48</a>
01. How careful was I when I took my way
14. For truth proves thievish for a prize so dear
<a href="sonnet_049.html">Sonnet 49</a>
01. Against that time (if ever that time come)
14. Since why to love, I can allege no cause
<a href="sonnet_050.html">Sonnet 50</a>
01. How heavy do I journey on the way
14. My grief lies onward and my joy behind
<a href="sonnet_051.html">Sonnet 51</a>
01. Thus can my love excuse the slow offense
14. Towards thee I'll run, and give him leave to go
<a href="sonnet_052.html">Sonnet 52</a>
01. So am I as the rich whose blessed key
14. Being had to triumph, being lacked to hope
<a href="sonnet_053.html">Sonnet 53</a>
01. What is your substance, whereof are you made
14. But you like none, none you for constant heart
<a href="sonnet_054.html">Sonnet 54</a>
01. Oh how much more doth beauty beauteous seem
14. When that shall vade, by verse distils your truth
<a href="sonnet_055.html">Sonnet 55 : Hamnet's Memorial Sonnet</a>
01. Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
14. You live in this, and dwell in lover's eyes
<a href="sonnet_056.html">Sonnet 56</a>
01. Sweet love renew thy force, be it not said
14. Makes Summer's welcome, thrice more wish'd, more rare
<a href="sonnet_057.html">Sonnet 57</a>
01. Being your slave what should I do but tend
14. (Though you do any thing) he thinks no ill
<a href="sonnet_058.html">Sonnet 58</a>
01. That God forbid, that made me first your slave
14. Not blame your pleasure be it ill or well
<a href="sonnet_059.html">Sonnet 59</a>
01. If there be nothing new, but that which is
14. To subjects worse have given admiring praise
<a href="sonnet_060.html">Sonnet 60</a>
01. Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore
14. Praising thy worth, despite his cruel hand
<a href="sonnet_061.html">Sonnet 61</a>
01. Is it thy will, thy Image should keep open
14. From me far off, with others all too near
<a href="sonnet_062.html">Sonnet 62</a>
01. Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye
14. Painting my age with beauty of thy days
<a href="sonnet_063.html">Sonnet 63</a>
01. Against my love shall be as I am now
14. And they shall live, and he in them still green
<a href="sonnet_064.html">Sonnet 64</a>
01. When I have seen by time's fell hand defaced
14. But weep to have, that which it fears to lose
<a href="sonnet_065.html">Sonnet 65</a>
01. Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea
14. That in black ink my love may still shine bright
<a href="sonnet_066.html">Sonnet 66</a>
01. Tir'd with all these for restful death I cry
14. Save that to die, I leave my love alone
<a href="sonnet_067.html">Sonnet 67</a>
01. Ah wherefore with infection should he live
14. In days long since, before these last so bad
<a href="sonnet_068.html">Sonnet 68</a>
01. Thus is his cheek the map of days out-worn
14. To show false Art what beauty was of yore
<a href="sonnet_069.html">Sonnet 69 : Ophelia's Beautiful Mind Sonnet</a>
01. Those parts of thee that the world's eye doth view
14. The folly is this, that thou dost common grow
<a href="sonnet_070.html">Sonnet 70 : Ophelia's Love Sonnet</a>
01. That thou are blam'd shall not be thy defect
14. Then thou alone kingdoms of hearts shouldst owe . . . (love)
<a href="sonnet_071.html">Sonnet 71</a>
01. No longer mourn for me when I am dead
14. And mock you with me after I am gone
<a href="sonnet_072.html">Sonnet 72</a>
01. O lest the world should task you to recite
14. And so should you, to love things nothing worth
<a href="sonnet_073.html">Sonnet 73</a>
01. That time of year thou mayst in me behold
14. To love that well, which thou must leave ere long
<a href="sonnet_074.html">Sonnet 74</a>
01. But be contented when that fell arrest
14. And that is this, and this with thee remains
<a href="sonnet_075.html">Sonnet 75</a>
01. So are you to my thoughts as food to life
14. Or gluttoning on all, or all away
<a href="sonnet_076.html">Sonnet 76</a>
01. Why is my verse so barren of new pride
14. So is my love still telling what is told
<a href="sonnet_077.html">Sonnet 77</a>
01. Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear
14. Shall profit thee and much enrich thy book
<a href="sonnet_078.html">Sonnet 78</a>
01. So oft have I invok'd thee for my Muse
14. As high as learning, my rude ignorance
<a href="sonnet_079.html">Sonnet 79</a>
01. Whilst I alone did call upon thy aid
14. Since what he owes thee, thou thyself dost pay
<a href="sonnet_080.html">Sonnet 80</a>
01. O how I faint when I of you do write
14. The worst was this, my love was my decay
<a href="sonnet_081.html">Sonnet 81</a>
01. Or I shall live your Epitaph to make
14. Where breath most breathes, even in the mouths of men
<a href="sonnet_082.html">Sonnet 82</a>
01. I grant thou wert not married to my Muse
14. Where cheeks need blood, in thee it is abus'd
<a href="sonnet_083.html">Sonnet 83</a>
01. I never saw that you did painting need
14. Than both your Poets can in praise devise
<a href="sonnet_084.html">Sonnet 84</a>
01. Who is it that says most, which can say more
14. Being fond on praise, which makes your praises worse
<a href="sonnet_085.html">Sonnet 85</a>
01. My tongue-tied Muse in manners holds her still
14. Me for my dumb thoughts, speaking in effect
<a href="sonnet_086.html">Sonnet 86</a>
01. Was it the proud full sail of his great verse
14. Then lacked I matter, that enfeebled mine
<a href="sonnet_087.html">Sonnet 87</a>
01. Farewell thou art too dear for my possessing
14. In sleep a King, but waking no such matter
<a href="sonnet_088.html">Sonnet 88</a>
01. When thou shalt be disposed to set me light
14. That for thy right, my self will bear all wrong
<a href="sonnet_089.html">Sonnet 89</a>
01. Say that thou did forsake me for some fault
14. For I must ne'er love him whom thou dost hate
<a href="sonnet_090.html">Sonnet 90</a>
01. Then hate me when thou wilt, if ever, now
14. Compar'd with loss of thee, will not seem so
<a href="sonnet_091.html">Sonnet 91</a>
01. Some glory in their birth, some in their skill
14. All this away, and me most wretched make
<a href="sonnet_092.html">Sonnet 92</a>
01. But do they worst to steal thy self away
14. Thou mayst be false, and yet I know it not
<a href="sonnet_093.html">Sonnet 93</a>
01. So shall I live, supposing thou art true
14. If thy sweet virtue answer not thy show
<a href="sonnet_094.html">Sonnet 94</a>
01. They that have power to hurt, and will do none
14. Lilies that fester, smell far worse than weeds
<a href="sonnet_095.html">Sonnet 95</a>
01. How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame
14. The hardest knife ill us'd doth lose his edge
<a href="sonnet_096.html">Sonnet 96</a>
01. Some say thy fault is youth, some wantonness
14. As thou being mine, mine is thy good report
<a href="sonnet_097.html">Sonnet 97</a>
01. How like a Winter hath my absence been
14. That leaves look pale, dreading the Winter's near
<a href="sonnet_098.html">Sonnet 98</a>
01. From you have I been absent in the spring
14. As with your shadow I with these did play
<a href="sonnet_099.html">Sonnet 99 : Ophelia's Flowers Sonnet</a> (15 lines)
00. The forward violet thus did I chide
14. But sweet, or color it had stolen from thee
<a href="sonnet_100.html">Sonnet 100</a>
01. Where art thou Muse that thou forgetst so long
14. So thou prevents his scythe, and crooked knife
<a href="sonnet_101.html">Sonnet 101</a>
01. Oh truant Muse what shall be thy amends
14. To make him seem long hence, as he shows now
<a href="sonnet_102.html">Sonnet 102</a>
01. My love is strengthened though more weak in seeming
14. Because I would not dull you with my tongue
<a href="sonnet_103.html">Sonnet 103</a>
01. Alack what poverty my Muse brings forth
14. Your own glass shows you, when you look in it
<a href="sonnet_104.html">Sonnet 104</a>
01. To me fair friend you never can be old
14. Ere you were born was beauty's summer dead
<a href="sonnet_105.html">Sonnet 105</a>
01. Let not my love be call'd Idolatry
14. Which three till now, never kept seat in one
<a href="sonnet_106.html">Sonnet 106</a>
01. When in the Chronicle of wasted time
14. Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise
<a href="sonnet_107.html">Sonnet 107</a>
01. Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul
14. When tyrant's crests and tombs of brass are spent
<a href="sonnet_108.html">Sonnet 108</a>
01. What's in the brain that Ink may character
14. Where time and outward form would show it dead
<a href="sonnet_109.html">Sonnet 109</a>
01. O never say that I was false of heart
14. Save thou my Rose, in it thou art my all
<a href="sonnet_110.html">Sonnet 110</a>
01. Alas 'tis true, I have gone here and there
14. Even to thy pure and most most loving breast
<a href="sonnet_111.html">Sonnet 111</a>
01. O for my sake do you with fortune chide
14. Even that your pity is enough to cure me
<a href="sonnet_112.html">Sonnet 112</a>
01. Your love and pity doth th' impression fill
14. That all the world besides me thinks y'are dead
<a href="sonnet_113.html">Sonnet 113</a>
01. Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind
14. My most true mind thus maketh mine untrue
<a href="sonnet_114.html">Sonnet 114</a>
01. Or whether doth my mind being crown'd with you
14. That mine eye loves it and doth first begin
<a href="sonnet_115.html">Sonnet 115</a>
01. Those lines that I before have writ do lie
14. To give full growth to that which still doth grow
<a href="sonnet_116.html">Sonnet 116</a>
01. Let me not to the marriage of true minds
14. I never writ, nor no man ever loved
<a href="sonnet_117.html">Sonnet 117</a>
01. Accuse me thus, that I have scanted all
14. The constancy and virtue of your love
<a href="sonnet_118.html">Sonnet 118</a>
01. Like as to make our appetites more keen
14. Drugs poison him that so fell sick of you
<a href="sonnet_119.html">Sonnet 119</a>
01. What potions have I drunk of Siren tears
14. And gain by ills thrice more than I have spent
<a href="sonnet_120.html">Sonnet 120</a>
01. That you were once unkind befriends me now
14. Mine ransoms yours, and yours must ransom me
<a href="sonnet_121.html">Sonnet 121</a>
01. Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed
14. All men are bad and in their badness reign
<a href="sonnet_122.html">Sonnet 122</a>
01. Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain
14. Were to import forgetfulness in me
<a href="sonnet_123.html">Sonnet 123</a>
01. No! Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change
14. I will be true despite thy scythe and thee
<a href="sonnet_124.html">Sonnet 124</a>
01. If my dear love were but the child of state
14. Which die for goodness, who have liv'd for crime
<a href="sonnet_125.html">Sonnet 125</a>
01. Were 't aught to me I bore the canopy
14. When most impeached, stands least in thy control
<a href="sonnet_126.html">Sonnet 126 (12 lines)</a>
01. O thou my lovely Boy who in thy power
12. And her Quietus is to render thee
<a href="sonnet_127.html">Sonnet 127</a>
01. In the old age black was not counted fair
14. That every tongue says beauty should look so
<a href="sonnet_128.html">Sonnet 128</a>
01. How oft when thou my music music playst
14. Give them their fingers, me thy lips to kiss
<a href="sonnet_129.html">Sonnet 129</a>
01. Th' expense of Spirit in a waste of shame
14. To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell
<a href="sonnet_130.html">Sonnet 130</a>
01. My Mistress' eyes are nothing like the Sun
14. As any she beli'd with false compare
<a href="sonnet_131.html">Sonnet 131</a>
01. Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art
14. And thence this slander as I think proceeds
<a href="sonnet_132.html">Sonnet 132</a>
01. Thine eyes I love, and they as pitying me
14. And all they foul that thy complexion lack
<a href="sonnet_133.html">Sonnet 133</a>
01. Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan
14. Perforce am thine and all that is in me
<a href="sonnet_134.html">Sonnet 134</a>
01. So now I have confessed that he is thine
14. He pays the whole, and yet am I not free
<a href="sonnet_135.html">Sonnet 135</a>
01. Who ever hath her wish, thou hast thy Will
14. Think all but one, and me in that one Will
<a href="sonnet_136.html">Sonnet 136</a>
01. If thy soul check thee that I come so near
14. And then thou lovest me for my name is Will
<a href="sonnet_137.html">Sonnet 137</a>
01. Thou blind fool love, what dost thou to mine eyes
14. And to this false plague are they now transferred
<a href="sonnet_138.html">Sonnet 138</a>
01. When my love swears that she is made of truth
14. And in our faults by lies we flattered be
<a href="sonnet_139.html">Sonnet 139</a>
01. O call not me to justify the wrong
14. Kill me outright with looks, and rid my pain
<a href="sonnet_140.html">Sonnet 140</a>
01. Be wise as thou art cruel, do not press
14. Bear thine eyes straight, though thy proud heart go wide
<a href="sonnet_141.html">Sonnet 141</a>
01. In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes
14. That she that makes me sin, awards me pain
<a href="sonnet_142.html">Sonnet 142</a>
01. Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate
14. By self example may'st thou be denied
<a href="sonnet_143.html">Sonnet 143</a>
01. Lo as a careful housewife runs to catch
14. If thou turn back and my loud crying still
<a href="sonnet_144.html">Sonnet 144</a>
01. Two loves I have of comfort and despair
14. Till my bad angel fire my good one out
<a href="sonnet_145.html">Sonnet 145</a>
01. Those lips that Love's own hand did make
14. And sav'd my life saying not you
<a href="sonnet_146.html">Sonnet 146</a>
01. Poor soul the center of my sinful earth
14. And death once dead, there's no more dying then
<a href="sonnet_147.html">Sonnet 147</a>
01. My love is as a fever longing still
14. Who art as black as hell, as dark as night
<a href="sonnet_148.html">Sonnet 148</a>
01. O me! what eyes hath love put in my head
14. Lest eyes well seeing thy foul faults should find
<a href="sonnet_149.html">Sonnet 149</a>
01. Canst thou O cruel, say I love thee not
14. Those that can see thou lov'st, and I am blind
<a href="sonnet_150.html">Sonnet 150</a>
01. Oh from what power hast thou this powerful might
14. More worthy I to be belov'd of thee
<a href="sonnet_151.html">Sonnet 151</a>
01. Love is too young to know what conscience is
14. Her love, for whose dear love I rise and fall
<a href="sonnet_152.html">Sonnet 152</a>
01. In loving thee thou know'st I am forsworn
14. To swear against the truth so foul a lie
<a href="sonnet_153.html">Sonnet 153</a>
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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