The Sonnets
by William Shakespeare
Shakespeare's sonnets is a collection of 154 poems in sonnet form written by William Shakespeare that deal with such themes as love, beauty, politics, and mortality.
Source: Shakespeare, W. (1609). The sonnets. In R. G. White (Ed.), The complete works of William Shakespeare. New York: Sully and Kleinteich.
- Sonnet 1
- From fairest creatures we desire increase
- Sonnet 2
- When forty winters shall besiege thy brow
- Sonnet 3
- Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest
- Sonnet 4
- Unthrifty loveliness why dost thou spend
- Sonnet 5
- Those hours that with gentle work did frame
- Sonnet 6
- Then let not winter’s ragged hand deface
- Sonnet 7
- Lo in the orient when the gracious light
- Sonnet 8
- Music to hear, why hear’st thou music sadly?
- Sonnet 9
- Is it for fear to wet a widow’s eye
- Sonnet 10
- For shame deny that thou bear’st love to any
- Sonnet 11
- As fast as thou shalt wane so fast thou grow’st
- Sonnet 12
- When I do count the clock that tells the time
- Sonnet 13
- O that you were your self, but love you are
- Sonnet 14
- Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck
- Sonnet 15
- When I consider every thing that grows
- Sonnet 16
- But wherefore do not you a mightier way
- Sonnet 17
- Who will believe my verse in time to come
- Sonnet 18
- Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
- Sonnet 19
- Devouring Time blunt thou the lion’s paws
- Sonnet 20
- A woman’s face with nature’s own hand painted
- Sonnet 21
- So is it not with me as with that muse
- Sonnet 22
- My glass shall not persuade me I am old
- Sonnet 23
- As an unperfect actor on the stage
- Sonnet 24
- Mine eye hath played the painter and hath stelled
- Sonnet 25
- Let those who are in favour with their stars
- Sonnet 26
- Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage
- Sonnet 27
- Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed
- Sonnet 28
- How can I then return in happy plight
- Sonnet 29
- When in disgrace with Fortune and men’s eyes
- Sonnet 30
- When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
- Sonnet 31
- Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts
- Sonnet 32
- If thou survive my well-contented day
- Sonnet 33
- Full many a glorious morning have I seen
- Sonnet 34
- Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day
- Sonnet 35
- No more be grieved at that which thou hast done
- Sonnet 36
- Let me confess that we two must be twain
- Sonnet 37
- As a decrepit father takes delight
- Sonnet 38
- How can my muse want subject to invent
- Sonnet 39
- O how thy worth with manners may I sing
- Sonnet 40
- Take all my loves, my love, yea take them all
- Sonnet 41
- Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits
- Sonnet 42
- That thou hast her it is not all my grief
- Sonnet 43
- When most I wink then do mine eyes best see
- Sonnet 44
- If the dull substance of my flesh were thought
- Sonnet 45
- The other two, slight air, and purging fire
- Sonnet 46
- Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war
- Sonnet 47
- Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took
- Sonnet 48
- How careful was I when I took my way
- Sonnet 49
- Against that time (if ever that time come)
- Sonnet 50
- How heavy do I journey on the way
- Sonnet 51
- Thus can my love excuse the slow offence
- Sonnet 52
- So am I as the rich whose blessed key
- Sonnet 53
- What is your substance, whereof are you made
- Sonnet 54
- O how much more doth beauty beauteous seem
- Sonnet 55
- Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
- Sonnet 56
- Sweet love renew thy force, be it not said
- Sonnet 57
- Being your slave what should I do but tend
- Sonnet 58
- That god forbid, that made me first your slave
- Sonnet 59
- If there be nothing new, but that which is
- Sonnet 60
- Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore
- Sonnet 61
- Is it thy will, thy image should keep open
- Sonnet 62
- Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye
- Sonnet 63
- Against my love shall be as I am now
- Sonnet 64
- When I have seen by Time’s fell hand defaced
- Sonnet 65
- Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea
- Sonnet 66
- Tired with all these for restful death I cry
- Sonnet 67
- Ah wherefore with infection should he live
- Sonnet 68
- Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn
- Sonnet 69
- Those parts of thee that the world’s eye doth view
- Sonnet 70
- That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect
- Sonnet 71
- No longer mourn for me when I am dead
- Sonnet 72
- O lest the world should task you to recite
- Sonnet 73
- That time of year thou mayst in me behold
- Sonnet 74
- But be contented when that fell arrest
- Sonnet 75
- So are you to my thoughts as food to life
- Sonnet 76
- Why is my verse so barren of new pride?
- Sonnet 77
- Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear
- Sonnet 78
- So oft have I invoked thee for my muse
- Sonnet 79
- Whilst I alone did call upon thy aid
- Sonnet 80
- O how I faint when I of you do write
- Sonnet 81
- Or I shall live your epitaph to make
- Sonnet 82
- I grant thou wert not married to my muse
- Sonnet 83
- I never saw that you did painting need
- Sonnet 84
- Who is it that says most, which can say more
- Sonnet 85
- My tongue-tied muse in manners holds her still
- Sonnet 86
- Was it the proud full sail of his great verse
- Sonnet 87
- Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing
- Sonnet 88
- When thou shalt be disposed to set me light
- Sonnet 89
- Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault
- Sonnet 90
- Then hate me when thou wilt, if ever, now
- Sonnet 91
- Some glory in their birth, some in their skill
- Sonnet 92
- But do thy worst to steal thy self away
- Sonnet 93
- So shall I live, supposing thou art true
- Sonnet 94
- They that have power to hurt, and will do none
- Sonnet 95
- How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame
- Sonnet 96
- Some say thy fault is youth, some wantonness
- Sonnet 97
- How like a winter hath my absence been
- Sonnet 98
- From you have I been absent in the spring
- Sonnet 99
- The forward violet thus did I chide
- Sonnet 100
- Where art thou Muse that thou forget’st so long
- Sonnet 101
- O truant Muse what shall be thy amends
- Sonnet 102
- My love is strengthened though more weak in seeming
- Sonnet 103
- Alack what poverty my muse brings forth
- Sonnet 104
- To me fair friend you never can be old
- Sonnet 105
- Let not my love be called idolatry
- Sonnet 106
- When in the chronicle of wasted time
- Sonnet 107
- Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul
- Sonnet 108
- What’s in the brain that ink may character
- Sonnet 109
- O never say that I was false of heart
- Sonnet 110
- Alas ‘tis true, I have gone here and there
- Sonnet 111
- O for my sake do you with Fortune chide
- Sonnet 112
- Your love and pity doth th’ impression fill
- Sonnet 113
- Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind
- Sonnet 114
- Or whether doth my mind being crowned with you
- Sonnet 115
- Those lines that I before have writ do lie
- Sonnet 116
- Let me not to the marriage of true minds
- Sonnet 117
- Accuse me thus, that I have scanted all
- Sonnet 118
- Like as to make our appetite more keen
- Sonnet 119
- What potions have I drunk of Siren tears
- Sonnet 120
- That you were once unkind befriends me now
- Sonnet 121
- ‘Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed
- Sonnet 122
- Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain
- Sonnet 123
- No! Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change
- Sonnet 124
- If my dear love were but the child of state
- Sonnet 125
- Were’t aught to me I bore the canopy
- Sonnet 126
- O thou my lovely boy who in thy power
- Sonnet 127
- In the old age black was not counted fair
- Sonnet 128
- How oft when thou, my music, music play’st
- Sonnet 129
- Th’ expense of spirit in a waste of shame
- Sonnet 130
- My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun
- Sonnet 131
- Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art
- Sonnet 132
- Thine eyes I love, and they as pitying me
- Sonnet 133
- Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan
- Sonnet 134
- So now I have confessed that he is thine
- Sonnet 135
- Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy will
- Sonnet 136
- If thy soul check thee that I come so near
- Sonnet 137
- Thou blind fool Love, what dost thou to mine eyes
- Sonnet 138
- When my love swears that she is made of truth
- Sonnet 139
- O call not me to justify the wrong
- Sonnet 140
- Be wise as thou art cruel, do not press
- Sonnet 141
- In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes
- Sonnet 142
- Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate
- Sonnet 143
- Lo as a careful huswife runs to catch
- Sonnet 144
- Two loves I have of comfort and despair
- Sonnet 145
- Those lips that Love’s own hand did make
- Sonnet 146
- Poor soul the centre of my sinful earth
- Sonnet 147
- My love is as a fever longing still
- Sonnet 148
- O me! what eyes hath love put in my head
- Sonnet 149
- Canst thou O cruel, say I love thee not
- Sonnet 150
- O from what power hast thou this powerful might
- Sonnet 151
- Love is too young to know what conscience is
- Sonnet 152
- In loving thee thou know’st I am forsworn
- Sonnet 153
- Cupid laid by his brand and fell asleep
- Sonnet 154
- The little Love-god lying once asleep