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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?
An…
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
Without th…
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,
And al…
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,
Gi…
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,
But day by …
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 duty, not…
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 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 trouble…
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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…