Shakespeare’s Sonnets Sonnet 1 – From Fairest Creatures We Desire IncreaseSonnet 2 – When Forty Winters Shall Besiege Thy BrowSonnet 3 – Look in Thy Glass, and Tell the Face Thou ViewestSonnet 4 – Unthrifty Loveliness, Why Dost Thou Spend?Sonnet 5 – Those Hours That with Gentle Work Did FrameSonnet 6 – Then Let Not Winter’s Ragged Hand DefaceSonnet 7 – Lo! In the Orient, When the Gracious LightSonnet 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’stSonnet 12 – When I Do Count the Clock That Tells the TimeSonnet 13 – O! That You Were Yourself! But, Love, You AreSonnet 14 – Not from the Stars Do I My Judgment PluckSonnet 15 – When I Consider Everything That GrowsSonnet 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 PawSonnet 20 – A Woman’s Face with Nature’s Own Hand Painted Sonnet 21 – So Is It Not with Me as with That MuseSonnet 22 – My Glass Shall Not Persuade Me I Am OldSonnet 23 – As an Unperfect Actor on the StageSonnet 24 – Mine Eye Hath Play’d the Painter and Hath Steel’dSonnet 25 – Let Those Who Are in Favour with Their StarsSonnet 26 – Lord of My Love, to Whom in VassalageSonnet 27 – Weary with Toil, I Haste to My BedSonnet 28 – How Can I Then Return in Happy Plight?Sonnet 29 – When in Disgrace with Fortune and Men’s EyesSonnet 30 – When to the Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought Sonnet 31 – Thy Bosom Is Endeared with All HeartsSonnet 32 – If Thou Survive My Well-Contented DaySonnet 33 – Full Many a Glorious Morning Have I SeenSonnet 34 – Why Didst Thou Promise Such a Beauteous Day?Sonnet 35 – No More Be Grieved at That Which Thou Hast DoneSonnet 36 – Let Me Confess That We Two Must Be TwainSonnet 37 – As a Decrepit Father Takes DelightSonnet 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 CommitsSonnet 42 – That Thou Hast It Is Not All My GriefSonnet 43 – When Most I Wink, Then Do Mine Eyes Best SeeSonnet 44 – If the Dull Substance of My Flesh Were ThoughtSonnet 45 – The Other Two, Slight Air and Purging FireSonnet 46 – Mine Eye and Heart Are at a Mortal WarSonnet 47 – Betwixt Mine Eye and Heart a League Is TookSonnet 48 – How Careful Was I When I Took My WaySonnet 49 – Against That Time, If Ever That Time ComeSonnet 50 – How Heavy Do I Journey on the Way Sonnet 51 – Thus Can My Love Excuse the Slow OffenseSonnet 52 – So Am I as the Rich, Whose Blessed KeySonnet 53 – What Is Your Substance, Whereof Are You Made?Sonnet 54 – O! How Much More Doth Beauty Beauteous SeemSonnet 55 – Not Marble, Nor the Gilded MonumentsSonnet 56 – Sweet Love, Renew Thy Force; Be It Not SaidSonnet 57 – Being Your Slave, What Should I Do But Tend?Sonnet 58 – That God Forbid, That Made Me First Your SlaveSonnet 59 – If There Be Nothing New, But That Which IsSonnet 60 – Like as the Waves Make Towards the Pebbled Shore Sonnet 61 – Is It Thy Will Thy Image Should Keep OpenSonnet 62 – Sin of Self-Love Possesseth All Mine EyeSonnet 63 – Against My Love Shall Be as I Am NowSonnet 64 – When I Have Seen by Time’s Fell Hand Defac’dSonnet 65 – Since Brass, Nor Stone, Nor Earth, Nor Boundless SeaSonnet 66 – Tired with All These, for Restful Death I CrySonnet 67 – Ah! Wherefore with Infection Should He LiveSonnet 68 – In Days Long Since, Before These Last So BadSonnet 69 – Those Parts of Thee That the World’s Eye Doth ViewSonnet 70 – That Thou Art Blamed Shall Not Be Thy Defect Sonnet 71 – No Longer Mourn for Me When I Am DeadSonnet 72 – O! Lest the World Should Task You to ReciteSonnet 73 – That Time of Year Thou Mayst in Me BeholdSonnet 74 – But Be Contented When That Fell ArrestSonnet 75 – So Are You to My Thoughts as Food to LifeSonnet 76 – Why Is My Verse So Barren of New Pride?Sonnet 77 – Thy Glass Will Show Thee How Thy Beauties WearSonnet 78 – So Oft Have I Invoked Thee for My MuseSonnet 79 – Whilst I Alone Did Call Upon Thy AidSonnet 80 – O! How I Faint When I Do Write of You Sonnet 81 – Or I Shall Live Your Epitaph to MakeSonnet 82 – I Grant Thou Wert Not Married to My MuseSonnet 83 – I Never Saw That You Did Painting NeedSonnet 84 – Who Is It That Says Most, Which Can Say More?Sonnet 85 – My Tongue-Tied Muse in Manners Holds Her StillSonnet 86 – Was It the Proud Sail of His Great VerseSonnet 87 – Farewell! Thou Art Too Dear for My PossessingSonnet 88 – When Thou Shalt Be Dispos’d to Set Me LightSonnet 89 – Say That Thou Didst Forsake Me for Some FaultSonnet 90 – Then Hate Me When Thou Wilt; If Ever, Now Sonnet 91 – Some Glory in Their Birth, Some in Their SkillSonnet 92 – But Do Thy Worst to Steal Thyself AwaySonnet 93 – So Shall I Live, Supposing Thou Art TrueSonnet 94 – They That Have Power to Hurt, and Will Do NoneSonnet 95 – How Sweet and Lovely Dost Thou Make the ShameSonnet 96 – Some Say Thy Fault Is Youth, Some WantonnessSonnet 97 – How Like a Winter Hath My Absence BeenSonnet 98 – From You Have I Been Absent in the SpringSonnet 99 – The Forward Violet Thus Did I ChideSonnet 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 Strengthen’d, Though More Weak in SeemingSonnet 103 – Alack, What Poverty My Muse Brings ForthSonnet 104 – To Me, Fair Friend, You Never Can Be OldSonnet 105 – Let Not My Love Be Called IdolatrySonnet 106 – When in the Chronicle of Wasted TimeSonnet 107 – Not Mine Own Fears, Nor the Prophetic SoulSonnet 108 – What’s in the Brain That Ink May Character?Sonnet 109 – O! Never Say That I Was False of HeartSonnet 110 – Alas! ’Tis True, I Have Gone Here and There Sonnet 111 – O! For My Sake Do You with Fortune ChideSonnet 112 – Your Love and Pity Doth Th’ Impression FillSonnet 113 – Since I Left You, Mine Eye Is in My MindSonnet 114 – Or Whether Doth My Mind, Being Crowned with YouSonnet 115 – Those Lines That I Before Have Writ Do LieSonnet 116 – Let Me Not to the Marriage of True MindsSonnet 117 – Accuse Me Thus: That I Have Scanted AllSonnet 118 – Like as to Make Our Appetites More KeenSonnet 119 – What Potions Have I Drunk of Siren TearsSonnet 120 – That You Were Once Unkind Befriends Me Now Sonnet 121 – ’Tis Better to Be Vile Than Vile EsteemedSonnet 122 – Thy Gift, Thy Tables, Are Within My BrainSonnet 123 – Thy Pyramids Built Up with Newer MightSonnet 124 – If My Dear Love Were But the Child of StateSonnet 125 – Were’t Ought to Me I Bore the CanopySonnet 126 – O Thou, My Lovely Boy, Who in Thy Pow’r Sonnet 127 – In the Old Age Black Was Not Counted FairSonnet 128 – How Oft When Thou, My Music, Music Play’stSonnet 129 – Th’ Expense of Spirit in a Waste of ShameSonnet 130 – My Mistress’ Eyes Are Nothing Like the SunSonnet 131 – Thou Art as Tyrannous, So as Thou ArtSonnet 132 – Thine Eyes I Love, and They, as Pitying MeSonnet 133 – Beshrew That Heart That Makes My Heart to GroanSonnet 134 – So Now I Have Confessed That He Is ThineSonnet 135 – Whoever Hath Her Wish, Thou Hast Thy WillSonnet 136 – If Thy Soul Check Thee That I Come So NearSonnet 137 – Thou Blind Fool, Love, What Dost Thou to Mine EyesSonnet 138 – When My Love Swears That She Is Made of TruthSonnet 139 – O! Call Not Me to Justify the WrongSonnet 140 – Be Wise as Thou Art Cruel Sonnet 141 – In Faith I Do Not Love You with Mine EyesSonnet 142 – Love Is My Sin, and Thy Dear Virtue HateSonnet 143 – Lo, as a Careful Housewife Runs to CatchSonnet 144 – Two Loves I Have of Comfort and DespairSonnet 145 – Those Lips That Love’s Own Hand Did MakeSonnet 146 – Poor Soul, the Centre of My Sinful EarthSonnet 147 – My Love Is as a Fever Longing StillSonnet 148 – O Me! What Eyes Hath Love Put in My HeadSonnet 149 – Canst Thou, O Cruel! Say I Love Thee NotSonnet 150 – O! From What Power Hast Thou This Powerful MightSonnet 151 – Love Is Too Young to Know What Conscience IsSonnet 152 – In Loving Thee Thou Know’st I Am ForswornSonnet 153 – Cupid Laid by His Brand and Fell AsleepSonnet 154 – The Little Love-God Lying Once Asleep
