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After a note on line numbers there is a brief summary of the Sonnets.
Line Numbers
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In writing essays etc where citing Shakespeare's sonnets the convention is to cite the sonnet number and line number in brackets. For example: Then, in the blazon of sweet beauty's best, Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow (106.5-7). The info in brackets refers to Sonnet 106, lines 5 to 7. We show these numbers on the right hand side of a sonnets’s text (you can if you wish select to remove the numbers by clicking the link to remove at the bottom). The Sonnets The Sonnets (1598-1609) are a loosely related series of one hundred fifty-four Sonnets. The first part of the collection is addressed to a young friend, and the last part is addressed to a mysterious "dark lady."
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