# Shakespeare's Sonnets (1923) Yale/Text

On this page appears the Dedication from the Quarto of 1609 (annotated), followed by links to each of the 154 Sonnets, identified by number and by first line.
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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 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