Shakespeare’s Poems
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 play’d the painter and hath steel’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
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 petty 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 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 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 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
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 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 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
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
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 cheque 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 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
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
Love Prayers
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