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Sonnet CXX
Sonnet CXX
That you were once unkind befriends me now,
And for that sorrow which I then did feel
Needs must I under my transgression bow,
Unless my…
Sonnet CXXII
Sonnet CXXII
Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain
Full character'd with lasting memory,
Which shall above that idle rank remain
Beyond all dat…
Sonnet CXVI
Sonnet CXVI
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the r…
Sonnet CXVII
Sonnet CXVII
Accuse me thus: that I have scanted all
Wherein I should your great deserts repay,
Forgot upon your dearest love to call,
Whereto all …
Sonnet CXLVI
Sonnet CXLVI
Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth,
[ ] these rebel powers that thee array;
Why dost thou pine within and suffer dearth,
Sonnet CXLVIII
Sonnet CXLVIII
O me, what eyes hath Love put in my head,
Which have no correspondence with true sight!
Or, if they have, where is my judgment fled,
Sonnet CXLIX
Sonnet CXLIX
Canst thou, O cruel! say I love thee not,
When I against myself with thee partake?
Do I not think on thee, when I forgot
Am of myself,…
Sonnet CXLIII
Sonnet CXLIII
Lo! as a careful housewife runs to catch
One of her feather'd creatures broke away,
Sets down her babe and makes an swift dispatch
In…
Sonnet CXIX
Sonnet CXIX
What potions have I drunk of Siren tears,
Distill'd from limbecks foul as hell within,
Applying fears to hopes and hopes to fears,
Stil…
Sonnet CXLI
Sonnet CXLI
In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes,
For they in thee a thousand errors note;
But 'tis my heart that loves what they despise,
W…
Sonnet CXI: O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide
Sonnet CXI: O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide
O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide,
The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds,
That did not bette…
Sonnet CXIII
Sonnet CXIII
Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind;
And that which governs me to go about
Doth part his function and is partly blind,
Seems seei…
Sonnet CVII: Not Mine Own Fears, Nor the Prophetic Soul
Sonnet CVII: Not Mine Own Fears, Nor the Prophetic Soul
Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul
Of the wide world dreaming on things to come,
Can yet …
Sonnet CX
Sonnet CX
Alas, 'tis true I have gone here and there
And made myself a motley to the view,
Gored mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear,
M…
Sonnet CVI
Sonnet CVI
When in the chronicle of wasted time
I see descriptions of the fairest wights,
And beauty making beautiful old rhyme
In praise of ladies…
Sonnet CLIV
Sonnet CLIV
The little Love-god lying once asleep
Laid by his side his heart-inflaming brand,
Whilst many nymphs that vow'd chaste life to keep
Cam…
Sonnet CL
Sonnet CL
O, from what power hast thou this powerful might
With insufficiency my heart to sway?
To make me give the lie to my true sight,
And swear…
Sonnet CLII
Sonnet CLII
In loving thee thou know'st I am forsworn,
But thou art twice forsworn, to me love swearing,
In act thy bed-vow broke and new faith torn,
Sonnet CIV
Sonnet CIV
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
H…
Sonnet CII
Sonnet CII
My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming;
I love not less, though less the show appear:
That love is merchandized whose rich estee…
Sonnet C
Sonnet C
Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long
To speak of that which gives thee all thy might?
Spend'st thou thy fury on some worthless song…
Sonnet 98: From you have I been absent in the spring
Sonnet 98: From you have I been absent in the spring
From you have I been absent in the spring,
When proud-pied April, dressed in all his trim,
Sonnet 96: Some say thy fault is youth, some wantonness
Sonnet 96: Some say thy fault is youth, some wantonness
Some say thy fault is youth, some wantonness;
Some say thy grace is youth and gentle sport;
Both …
Sonnet 94: They that have power to hurt and will do none
Sonnet 94: 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,…