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Sonnet XXI
Sonnet XXI
So is it not with me as with that Muse
Stirr'd by a painted beauty to his verse,
Who heaven itself for ornament doth use
And every fair …
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,
Gil…
Sonnet XVI
Sonnet XVI
But wherefore do not you a mightier way
Make war upon this bloody tyrant, Time?
And fortify yourself in your decay
With means more bless…
Sonnet XVIII: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Sonnet 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 winds do sha…
Sonnet XLVIII
Sonnet XLVIII
How careful was I, when I took my way,
Each trifle under truest bars to thrust,
That to my use it might unused stay
From hands of fal…
Sonnet XLVI
Sonnet XLVI
Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war
How to divide the conquest of thy sight;
Mine eye my heart thy picture's sight would bar,
My hea…
Sonnet XLIX
Sonnet XLIX
Against that time, if ever that time come,
When I shall see thee frown on my defects,
When as thy love hath cast his utmost sum,
Call'd…
Sonnet XLIII
Sonnet XLIII
When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see,
For all the day they view things unrespected;
But when I sleep, in dreams they look on thee, <…
Sonnet XIX: Devouring Time, Blunt Thou the Lion's Paws
Sonnet XIX: Devouring Time, Blunt Thou the Lion's Paws
Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws,
And make the earth devour her own sweet brood;
Pluck t…
Sonnet XLI
Sonnet XLI
Those petty wrongs that liberty commits,
When I am sometime absent from thy heart,
Thy beauty and thy years full well befits,
For still …
Sonnet XIII
Sonnet XIII
O, that you were yourself! but, love, you are
No longer yours than you yourself here live:
Against this coming end you should prepare,
…
Sonnet XI
Sonnet XI
As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou growest
In one of thine, from that which thou departest;
And that fresh blood which youngly thou besto…
Sonnet XCV
Sonnet XCV
How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame
Which, like a canker in the fragrant rose,
Doth spot the beauty of thy budding name!
O, in…
Sonnet XCVII
Sonnet XCVII
How like a winter hath my absence been
From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!
What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen!
…
Sonnet XCIV: They That Have Power to Hurt and Will Do None
Sonnet XCIV: They That Have Power to Hurt and Will Do None
They that have power to hurt and will do none,
That do not do the thing they most do show,
Who…
Sonnet XCII
Sonnet XCII
But do thy worst to steal thyself away,
For term of life thou art assured mine,
And life no longer than thy love will stay,
For it depe…
Sonnet VIII
Sonnet VIII
Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?
Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy.
Why lovest thou that which thou receivest not g…
Sonnet XC
Sonnet XC
Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now;
Now, while the world is bent my deeds to cross,
Join with the spite of fortune, make me bow,
A…
Sonnet VI
Sonnet VI
Then let not winter's ragged hand deface
In thee thy summer, ere thou be distill'd:
Make sweet some vial; treasure thou some place
With b…
Sonnet LXXXVIII
Sonnet LXXXVIII
When thou shalt be disposed to set me light,
And place my merit in the eye of scorn,
Upon thy side against myself I'll fight,
And p…
Sonnet LXXXIX
Sonnet LXXXIX
Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault,
And I will comment upon that offence;
Speak of my lameness, and I straight will halt,
…
Sonnet LXXXVI
Sonnet LXXXVI
Was it the proud full sail of his great verse,
Bound for the prize of all too precious you,
That did my ripe thoughts in my brain inhearse,…
Sonnet LXXXI
Sonnet LXXXI
Or I shall live your epitaph to make,
Or you survive when I in earth am rotten;
From hence your memory death cannot take,
Although in …
Sonnet LXXXIII
Sonnet LXXXIII
I never saw that you did painting need
And therefore to your fair no painting set;
I found, or thought I found, you did exceed
The b…