Shakespeare’s Sonnets  7216

This work contains the following individual pieces:

• Sonnet 144 (‘Two loves I have of comfort and despair’)
• Sonnet 135 (‘Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy Will’)
• Sonnet 126 (‘O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy pow’r’)
• Sonnet 107 (‘Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul’)
• 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 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 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 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 shall I live your epitaph to make’)
• Sonnet 82 (‘I grant thou wert not married to my Muse’)
• Sonnet 70 (‘That thou art blamed shall no tbe thy defect’)
• Sonnet 72 (‘O, lest the world should task you to recite’)
• 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 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 see by Time’s fell hand defaced’)
• 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 56 (‘Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not said’)
• Sonnet 57 (‘Being your slave, what should I do but tend’)
• Sonnet 58 (‘What god forbid that made me first your slave’)
• Sonnet 59 (‘If there be nothing new, but that which is’)
• Sonnet 61 (‘Is it thy will thy image should keep open’)
• 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 54 (‘O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem’)
• 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 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 26 (‘Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage’)
• Sonnet 28 (‘How can I then return in happy plight’)
• 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 19 (‘Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion’s paws’)
• 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 13 (‘O, that you were yourself! but, love, you are’)
• Sonnet 14 (‘Not from the stars do I my judgment 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 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 8 (‘Music to hear, why hear’st thou music sadly?)
• Sonnet 7 (‘Lo, in the orient when the gracious light’)
• Sonnet 6 (‘Then let not winter’s ragged hand deface’)
• Sonnet 5 (‘Those hours that with gentle work did frame’)
• Sonnet 4 (‘Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend’)
• Sonnet 2 (‘When forty winters shall besiege thy brow’)
• Sonnet 1 (‘From fairest creatures we desire increase’)
• Sonnet 151 (‘Love is too young to know what conscience is’)
• Sonnet 141 (‘In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes’)
• Sonnet 146 (‘Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth’)
• Sonnet 127 (‘In the old age black was not counted fair’)
• Sonnet 128 (‘How oft, when thou, my music, music play’st’)
• Sonnet 106 (‘When in the chronicle of wasted time’)
• Sonnet 73 (‘That time of year thou mayst in me behold’)
• Sonnet 71 (‘No longer mourn for me when I am dead’)
• Sonnet 60 (‘Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore’)
• Sonnet 65 (‘Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea’)
• Sonnet 53 (‘What is your substance, whereof are you made’)
• Sonnet 55 (‘Not marble nor the gilded monuments’)
• Sonnet 27 (‘Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed’)
• Sonnet 20 (‘A woman’s face, with Nature’s own hand painted’)
• Sonnet 3 (‘Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest’)
• Sonnet 147 (‘My love is as a fever, longing still’)
• Sonnet 138 (‘When my love swears that she is made of truth’)
• Sonnet 130 (‘My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun’)
• Sonnet 129 (‘Th’ expense of spirit in a waste of shame’)
• Sonnet 94 (‘They that have power to hurt and will do none’)
• Sonnet 29 (‘When, in disgrace with Fortune and men’s eyes’)
• Sonnet 18 (‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?’)
• Sonnet 116 (‘Let me not to the marriage of true minds’)
• Sonnet 34 (‘Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day’)
• Sonnet 25 (‘Let those who are in favour with their stars’)

Locations in Harold's Library

• The Sonnets (book)
• Shakespeare’s Sonnets (book)

Holdings which refer to this poem

1. Why Does it End Well? Helena, Bertram, and The Sonnets (essay)
2. The Scandal of Shakespeare’s Sonnets (essay)
3. Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis Sonnets (essay)
4. William Hervey and Shakespeare’s Sonnets (essay)
5. Shakespeare’s Sonnets and the Elizabethan Sonneteers (essay)
6. Twentieth-century studies in Shakespeare’s Songs, Sonnets and Poems: II. The Sonnets (essay)
7. The Mutual Flame (book)
8. The Sonnets (essay)
9. William Houghton, William Haugton, The Shrew, and the Sonnets (essay)
10. Shakespeare’s Sonnets (book)
11. Shakespeare: The Poet and His Plays (book) • Covered in chapter "A Poetic Interlude"
12. Love’s Confined Doom (essay) • Links between the sonnets and the plays

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