TO · THE · ONLIE · BEGETTER · OF ·
THESE · INSUING · SONNETS ·
MR. W. H. ALL · HAPPINESSE ·
AND · THAT · ETERNITIE · 4
PROMISED ·
BY ·
OUR · EVER-LIVING · POET ·
WISHETH · 8
THE · WELL-WISHING ·
ADVENTURER · IN ·
SETTING ·
FORTH · 12
T. T.
1 Onlie begetter: only inspirer (?); cf. n.
3 Mr. W. H.; cf. n.
10–12 Adventurer in setting forth: publisher
13 T. T.; cf. n.
Sonnets (not listed in original)
Sonnets 1–10
- 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
Sonnets 11–20
- 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 yourself! but, love, you are
- Sonnet 14 – Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck
- Sonnet 15 – When I consider everything 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
Sonnets 21–30
- 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 play'd the painter and hath stell'd
- 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
Sonnets 31–40
- 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 griev'd 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
Sonnets 41–50
- 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
Sonnets 51–60
- 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
Sonnets 61–70
- 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 defac'd
- 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 blam'd shall not be thy defect
Sonnets 71–80
- 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 invok'd 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
Sonnets 81–90
- 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 dispos'd 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
Sonnets 91–100
- Sonnet 91 – Some glory in their birth, some in their skill
- Sonnet 92 – But do thy worst to steal thyself 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
Sonnets 101–110
- Sonnet 101 – O truant Muse, what shall be thy amends
- Sonnet 102 – My love is strengthen'd, 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 call'd 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
Sonnets 111–120
- Sonnet 111 – O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide
- Sonnet 112 – Your love and pity doth the impression fill
- Sonnet 113 – Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind
- Sonnet 114 – Or whether doth my mind being crown'd 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 appetites more keen
- Sonnet 119 – What potions have I drunk of Siren tears
- Sonnet 120 – That you were once unkind befriends me now
Sonnets 121–130
- Sonnet 121 – 'Tis better to be vile than vile esteem'd
- 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 – The expense of spirit in a waste of shame
- Sonnet 130 – My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun
Sonnets 131–140
- 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 confess'd 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
Sonnets 141–150
- 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 housewife 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
Sonnets 151–154
- 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