english sonnet
21Sonnet 29 — Sonnet|29 When, in disgrace with fortune and men s eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries And look upon myself and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like… …
22Sonnet 60 — Sonnet|60 Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend. Nativity, once in the main of light, Crawls to maturity,… …
23Sonnet 99 — Sonnet|99 The forward violet thus did I chide: Sweet thief, whence didst thou steal thy sweet that smells, If not from my love s breath? Thy purple pride Which on thy soft cheek for complexion dwells In my love s veins thou has t too grossly dyed …
24Sonnet 93 — Sonnet|93 So shall I live, supposing thou art true, Like a deceived husband; so love s face May still seem love to me, though altered new; Thy looks with me, thy heart in other place: For there can live no hatred in thine eye, Therefore in that I …
25Sonnet 123 — Sonnet|123 No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change: Thy pyramids built up with newer might To me are nothing novel, nothing strange; They are but dressings of a former sight. Our dates are brief, and therefore we admire What thou dost… …
26Sonnet 94 — Sonnet|94 They that have power to hurt and will do none, That do not do the thing they most do show, Who, moving others, are themselves as stone, Unmoved, cold, and to temptation slow, They rightly do inherit heaven s graces And husband nature s… …
27Sonnet 66 — Sonnet|66 Tired with all these, for restful death I cry, As, to behold desert a beggar born, And needy nothing trimm d in jollity, And purest faith unhappily forsworn, And guilded honour shamefully misplaced, And maiden virtue rudely strumpeted,… …
28Sonnet 65 — Sonnet|65 Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o er sways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower? O, how shall summer s honey breath hold out Against… …
29Sonnet 27 — sonnet|27 Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed, The dear repose for limbs with travel tired; But then begins a journey in my head To work my mind, when body s work s expired: For then my thoughts from far where I abide Intend a zealous… …
30Sonnet 74 — Sonnet|74 But be contented when that fell arrest Without all bail shall carry me away, My life hath in this line some interest, Which for memorial still with thee shall stay. When thou reviewest this, thou dost review The very part was consecrate …
