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Sonnets XVIII: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Sonnets XVIII: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough win…
Sonnets XXIX: When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes
Sonnets XXIX: When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes
When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state
An…
Sonnets xv
Sonnets xv
TO me, fair friend, you never can be old;
For as you were when first your eye I eyed,
Such seems your beauty still. Three Winters cold…
Sonnets xvii
Sonnets xvii
O NEVER say that I was false of heart,
Though absence seem'd my flame to qualify!
As easy might I from myself depart,
As fro…
Sonnets xiii
Sonnets xiii
FROM you have I been absent in the spring,
When proud-pied April, dress'd in all his trim,
Hath put a spirit of yout…
Sonnets xix
Sonnets xix
TH' expense of Spirit in a waste of shame
Is lust in action; and till action, lust
Is perjured, murderous, bloody, full of blame,
Sonnets x
Sonnets x
THEN hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now;
Now, while the world is bent my deeds to cross,
Join with the spite of fortu…
Sonnets xi
Sonnets xi
THEY that have power to hurt and will do none,
That do not do the thing they most do show,
Who, moving others, are themselves as stone…
Sonnets to the Sundry Notes of Music
Sonnets to the Sundry Notes of Music
I.
IT was a lording's daughter, the fairest one of three,
That liked of her master as well as well might be,…
Sonnets vii
Sonnets vii
BEING your slave, what should I do but tend
Upon the hours and times of your desire?
I have no precious time at all to spend,
…
Sonnets iv
Sonnets iv
THY bosom is endeared with all hearts
Which I, by lacking, have supposed dead:
And there reigns Love, and all Love's loving parts,
Sonnets LIII: What is your substance, whereof are you made
Sonnets LIII: What is your substance, whereof are you made
What is your substance, whereof are you made,
That millions of strange shadows on you tend?
Sonnets ii
Sonnets ii
WHEN, in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,
Sonnets CXXIX: Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame
Sonnets CXXIX: Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame
Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame
Is lust in action; and till action, lust
Is pe…
Sonnets CXLVI: Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth
Sonnets CXLVI: Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth
Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth,
[......] these rebel powers that thee array,
Wh…
Sonnet XXXVIII: How Can My Muse Want Subject to Invent
Sonnet XXXVIII: How Can My Muse Want Subject to Invent
How can my muse want subject to invent,
While thou dost breathe, that pour'st into my verse
…
Sonnet XXXIX
Sonnet XXXIX
O, how thy worth with manners may I sing,
When thou art all the better part of me?
What can mine own praise to mine own self bring? …
Sonnet XXXVI
Sonnet XXXVI
Let me confess that we two must be twain,
Although our undivided loves are one:
So shall those blots that do with me remain
…
Sonnet XXXI
Sonnet XXXI
Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts,
Which I by lacking have supposed dead,
And there reigns love and all love's loving parts,
Sonnet XXXIII
Sonnet XXXIII
Full many a glorious morning have I seen
Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye,
Kissing with golden face the meadows green, …
Sonnet XXVIII
Sonnet XXVIII
How can I then return in happy plight,
That am debarr'd the benefit of rest?
When day's oppression is not eased by night,
B…
Sonnet XXVI
Sonnet XXVI
Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage
Thy merit hath my duty strongly knit,
To thee I send this written embassage,
To witness…
Sonnet XXIII
Sonnet XXIII
Full many a glorious morning have I seen
Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye,
Kissing with golden face the meadows green, <…
Sonnet XXIX: When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes
Sonnet XXIX: When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes
When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state
And…