english sonnet
71Sonnet 124 — Sonnet|124 If my dear love were but the child of state, It might for Fortune s bastard be unfather d, As subject to Time s love or to Time s hate, Weeds among weeds, or flowers with flowers gather d. No, it was builded far from accident; It… …
72Sonnet 75 — Sonnet|75 So are you to my thoughts as food to life, Or as sweet season d showers are to the ground; And for the peace of you I hold such strife As twixt a miser and his wealth is found. Now proud as an enjoyer, and anon Doubting the filching age …
73Sonnet 78 — Sonnet|78 So oft have I invoked thee for my Muse, And found such fair assistance in my verse As every alien pen hath got my use And under thee their poesy disperse. Thine eyes, that taught the dumb on high to sing And heavy ignorance aloft to fly …
74Sonnet 79 — sonnet|79 Whilst I alone did call upon thy aid, My verse alone had all thy gentle grace; But now my gracious numbers are decay d, And my sick Muse doth give an other place. I grant, sweet love, thy lovely argument Deserves the travail of a… …
75Sonnet 80 — sonnet|80 O! how I faint when I of you do write, Knowing a better spirit doth use your name, And in the praise thereof spends all his might, To make me tongue tied speaking of your fame. But since your worth, wide as the ocean is, The humble as… …
76Sonnet 88 — Sonnet|88 When thou shalt be disposed to set me light, And place my merit in the eye of scorn, Upon thy side, against myself I ll fight, And prove thee virtuous, though thou art forsworn. With mine own weakness being best acquainted, Upon thy… …
77Sonnet 89 — Sonnet|89 Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault, And I will comment upon that offence: Speak of my lameness, and I straight will halt, Against thy reasons making no defence. Thou canst not, love, disgrace me half so ill, To set a form… …
78Sonnet 81 — Sonnet|81 Or I shall live your epitaph to make, Or you survive when I in earth am rotten, From hence your memory death cannot take, Although in me each part will be forgotten. Your name from hence immortal life shall have, Though I, once gone, to …
79Sonnet 82 — Sonnet|82 I grant thou wert not married to my Muse, And therefore mayst without attaint o erlook The dedicated words which writers use Of their fair subject, blessing every book. Thou art as fair in knowledge as in hue, Finding thy worth a limit… …
80Sonnet 83 — Sonnet|83 I never saw that you did painting need, And therefore to your fair no painting set; I found, or thought I found, you did exceed The barren tender of a poet s debt: And therefore have I slept in your report, That you yourself, being… …
