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Sonnets
1 |   | I. From fairest creatures we desire increase,
| 2 |   | II. When forty winters shall beseige thy brow,
| 3 |   | III. Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest
| 4 |   | IV. Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend
| 5 |   | V. Those hours, that with gentle work did frame
| 6 |   | VI. Then let not winter's ragged hand deface
| 7 |   | VII. Lo! in the orient when the gracious light
| 8 |   | III. Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?
| 9 |   | IX. Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye
| 10 |   | X. For shame! deny that thou bear'st love to any,
| 11 |   | XI. As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou growest
| 12 |   | XII. When I do count the clock that tells the time,
| 13 |   | XIII. O, that you were yourself! but, love, you are
| 14 |   | XIV. Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck;
| 15 |   | XV. When I consider every thing that grows
| 16 |   | XVI. But wherefore do not you a mightier way
| 17 |   | VII. Who will believe my verse in time to come,
| 18 |   | XVIII. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
| 19 |   | IX. Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws,
| 20 |   | XX. A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted
| 21 |   | XXI. So is it not with me as with that Muse
| 22 |   | XXII. My glass shall not persuade me I am old,
| 23 |   | XXIII. As an unperfect actor on the stage
| 24 |   | XXIV. Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stell'd
| 25 |   | XXV. Let those who are in favour with their stars
| 26 |   | XXVI. Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage
| 27 |   | XXVII. Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed,
| 28 |   | XXVIII. How can I then return in happy plight,
| 29 |   | XXIX. When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes,
| 30 |   | XXX. When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
| 31 |   | XXXI. Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts,
| 32 |   | XXXII. If thou survive my well-contented day,
| 33 |   | XXXIII. Full many a glorious morning have I seen
| 34 |   | XXXIV. Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day,
| 35 |   | XXXV. No more be grieved at that which thou hast done:
| 36 |   | XXXVI. Let me confess that we two must be twain,
| 37 |   | XXXVII. As a decrepit father takes delight
| 38 |   | XXXVIII. How can my Muse want subject to invent,
| 39 |   | XXXIX. O, how thy worth with manners may I sing,
| 40 |   | XL. Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all;
| 41 |   | XLI. Those petty wrongs that liberty commits,
| 42 |   | XLII. That thou hast her, it is not all my grief,
| 43 |   | XLIII. When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see,
| 44 |   | XLIV. If the dull substance of my flesh were thought,
| 45 |   | XLV. The other two, slight air and purging fire,
| 46 |   | XLVI. Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war
| 47 |   | XLVII. Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took,
| 48 |   | XLVIII. How careful was I, when I took my way,
| 49 |   | XLIX. Against that time, if ever that time come,
| 50 |   | L. How heavy do I journey on the way,
| 51 |   | LI. Thus can my love excuse the slow offence
| 52 |   | LII. So am I as the rich, whose blessed key
| 53 |   | LIII. What is your substance, whereof are you made,
| 54 |   | LIV. O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem
| 55 |   | LV. Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
| 56 |   | LVI. Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not said
| 57 |   | LVII. Being your slave, what should I do but tend
| 58 |   | VIII. That god forbid that made me first your slave,
| 59 |   | LIX. If there be nothing new, but that which is
| 60 |   | LX. Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,
| 61 |   | LXI. Is it thy will thy image should keep open
| 62 |   | LXII. Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye
| 63 |   | LXIII. Against my love shall be, as I am now,
| 64 |   | LXIV. When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced
| 65 |   | LXV. Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,
| 66 |   | LXVI. Tired with all these, for restful death I cry,
| 67 |   | LXVII. Ah! wherefore with infection should he live,
| 68 |   | LXVIII. Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn,
| 69 |   | LXIX. Those parts of thee that the world's eye doth view
| 70 |   | LXX. That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect,
| 71 |   | LXXI. No longer mourn for me when I am dead
| 72 |   | LXXII. O, lest the world should task you to recite
| 73 |   | LXXIII. That time of year thou mayst in me behold
| 74 |   | LXXIV. But be contented: when that fell arrest
| 75 |   | LXXV. So are you to my thoughts as food to life,
| 76 |   | LXXVI. Why is my verse so barren of new pride,
| 77 |   | LXXVII. Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear,
| 78 |   | LXXVIII. So oft have I invoked thee for my Muse
| 79 |   | LXXIX. Whilst I alone did call upon thy aid,
| 80 |   | LXXX. O, how I faint when I of you do write,
| 81 |   | LXXXI. Or I shall live your epitaph to make,
| 82 |   | LXXXII. I grant thou wert not married to my Muse
| 83 |   | LXXXIII. I never saw that you did painting need
| 84 |   | LXXXIV. Who is it that says most? which can say more
| 85 |   | LXXXV. My tongue-tied Muse in manners holds her still,
| 86 |   | LXXXVI. Was it the proud full sail of his great verse,
| 87 |   | LXXXVII. Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing,
| 88 |   | LXXXVIII. When thou shalt be disposed to set me light,
| 89 |   | LXXXIX. Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault,
| 90 |   | XC. Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now;
| 91 |   | XCI. Some glory in their birth, some in their skill,
| 92 |   | XCII. But do thy worst to steal thyself away,
| 93 |   | XCIII. So shall I live, supposing thou art true,
| 94 |   | XCIV. They that have power to hurt and will do none,
| 95 |   | XCV. How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame
| 96 |   | XCVI. Some say thy fault is youth, some wantonness;
| 97 |   | XCVII. How like a winter hath my absence been
| 98 |   | XCVIII. From you have I been absent in the spring,
| 99 |   | XCIX. The forward violet thus did I chide:
| 100 |   | C. Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long
| 101 |   | CI. O truant Muse, what shall be thy amends
| 102 |   | CII. My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming;
| 103 |   | CIII. Alack, what poverty my Muse brings forth,
| 104 |   | CIV. To me, fair friend, you never can be old,
| 105 |   | CV. Let not my love be call'd idolatry,
| 106 |   | CVI. When in the chronicle of wasted time
| 107 |   | CVII. Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul
| 108 |   | CVIII. What's in the brain that ink may character
| 109 |   | CIX. O, never say that I was false of heart,
| 110 |   | CX. Alas, 'tis true I have gone here and there
| 111 |   | CXI. O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide,
| 112 |   | CXII. Your love and pity doth the impression fill
| 113 |   | CXIII. Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind;
| 114 |   | CXIV. Or whether doth my mind, being crown'd with you,
| 115 |   | CXV. Those lines that I before have writ do lie,
| 116 |   | CXVI. Let me not to the marriage of true minds
| 117 |   | CXVII. Accuse me thus: that I have scanted all
| 118 |   | CXVIII. Like as, to make our appetites more keen,
| 119 |   | CXIX. What potions have I drunk of Siren tears,
| 120 |   | CXX. That you were once unkind befriends me now,
| 121 |   | CXXI. 'Tis better to be vile than vile esteem'd,
| 122 |   | CXXII. Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain
| 123 |   | CXXIII. No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change:
| 124 |   | CXXIV. If my dear love were but the child of state,
| 125 |   | CXXV. Were 't aught to me I bore the canopy,
| 126 |   | CXXVI. O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power
| 127 |   | CXXVII. In the old age black was not counted fair,
| 128 |   | CXXVIII. How oft, when thou, my music, music play'st,
| 129 |   | CXXIX. The expense of spirit in a waste of shame
| 130 |   | CXXX. My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
| 131 |   | CXXXI. Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art,
| 132 |   | CXXXII. Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me,
| 133 |   | CXXXIII. Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan
| 134 |   | CXXXIV. So, now I have confess'd that he is thine,
| 135 |   | CXXXV. Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy 'Will,'
| 136 |   | CXXXVI. If thy soul cheque thee that I come so near,
| 137 |   | CXXXVII. Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes,
| 138 |   | CXXXVIII. When my love swears that she is made of truth
| 139 |   | CXXXIX. O, call not me to justify the wrong
| 140 |   | CXL. Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press
| 141 |   | CXLI. In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes,
| 142 |   | CXLII. Love is my sin and thy dear virtue hate,
| 143 |   | CXLIII. Lo! as a careful housewife runs to catch
| 144 |   | CXLIV. Two loves I have of comfort and despair,
| 145 |   | CXLV. Those lips that Love's own hand did make
| 146 |   | CXLVI. Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth,
| 147 |   | CXLVII. My love is as a fever, longing still
| 148 |   | CXLVIII. O me, what eyes hath Love put in my head,
| 149 |   | CXLIX. Canst thou, O cruel! say I love thee not,
| 150 |   | CL. O, from what power hast thou this powerful might
| 151 |   | CLI. Love is too young to know what conscience is;
| 152 |   | CLII. In loving thee thou know'st I am forsworn,
| 153 |   | CLIII. Cupid laid by his brand, and fell asleep:
| 154 |   | CLIV. The little Love-god lying once asleep
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