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Sometimes I joy when glad occasion fits,
And mask in myrth lyke to a Comedy
Sonnet 54
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sonnet 18
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
Sonnet 18
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
Sonnet 18
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee.
Sonnet 18
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.
Sonnet 60
Nativity, once in the main of light,
Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crown'd,
Crooked eclipses 'gainst his glory fight,
And Time that gave doth now his gift confound.
Sonnet 60
Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth
And delves the parallels in beauty's brow,
Feeds on the rarities of nature's truth,
And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow:
Sonnet 60
And yet to times in hope my verse shall stand,
Praising thy worth, despite his cruel hand.
Sonnet 60
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
Sonnet 116
If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
Sonnet 116
The expense of spirit in a waste of shame
Is lust in action; and till action, lust
Is perjured, murderous, bloody, full of blame,
Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust,
Sonnet 129
Enjoy'd no sooner but despised straight,
Past reason hunted, and no sooner had
Past reason hated, as a swallow'd bait
On purpose laid to make the taker mad;
Sonnet 129
Mad in pursuit and in possession so;
Had, having, and in quest to have, extreme;
A bliss in proof, and proved, a very woe;
Before, a joy proposed; behind, a dream.
Sonnet 129
All this the world well knows; yet none knows well To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell.
Sonnet 129
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
Sonnet 130
I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
Sonnet 130
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:
Sonnet 130
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare As any she belied with false compare.
Sonnet 130
Two loves I have of comfort and despair,
Which like two spirits do suggest me still:
The better angel is a man right fair,
The worser spirit a woman colour'd ill.
Sonnet 144
To win me soon to hell, my female evil
Tempteth my better angel from my side,
And would corrupt my saint to be a devil,
Wooing his purity with her foul pride.
Sonnet 144
And whether that my angel be turn'd fiend
Suspect I may, but not directly tell;
But being both from me, both to each friend,
I guess one angel in another's hell:
Sonnet 144
Yet this shall I ne'er know, but live in doubt,
Till my bad angel fire my good one out.
Sonnet 144
Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest,
Now is the time that face should form another
Sonnet 3
Whose fresh repair if now thou not renewest,
Thou dost beguile the world, unbless some mother.
Sonnet 3
For where is she so fair whose uneared womb
Disdains the tillage of thy husbandry?
Sonnet 3
Or who is he so fond will be the tomb
Of his self-love, to stop posterity?
Sonnet 3
Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee
Calls back the lovely April of her prime;
Sonnet 3
So thou through windows of thine age shalt see,
Despite of wrinkles, this thy golden time.
Sonnet 3
But if thou live rememb'red not to be,
Die single, and thine image dies with thee.
Sonnet 3
When I do count the clock that tells the time,
And see the brave day sunk in hideous night;
Sonnet 12
When I behold the violet past prime,
And sable curls all silver'd o'er with white;
Sonnet 12
And summer's green all girded up in sheaves
Borne on the bier with white and bristly beard,
Sonnet 12
When lofty trees I see barren of leaves
Which erst from heat did canopy the herd,
Sonnet 12
Then of thy beauty do I question make,
That thou among the wastes of time must go,
Sonnet 12
Since sweets and beauties do themselves forsake
And die as fast as they see others grow;
Sonnet 12
And nothing 'gainst Time's scythe can make defence
Save breed, to brave him when he takes thee hence.
Sonnet 12
O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy pow'r
Dost hold time's fickle glass his sickle hour,
Sonnet 126
Who hast by waning grown, and therein show'st
Thy lovers withering, as thy sweet self grow'st—
Sonnet 126
In nature, sovereign mistress over wrack,
As thou goest onwards still will pluck thee back,
Sonnet 126
She keeps thee to this purpose, that her skill
May time disgrace, and wretched minute kill.
Sonnet 126
Yet fear her, O thou minion of her pleasure;
She may detain but not still keep her treasure.
Sonnet 126
Her audit, though delayed, answered must be,
And her quietus is to render thee.
Sonnet 126
Of this worlds Theatre in which we stay, My love lyke the Spectator ydly sits
Sonnet 54
Beholding me that all the pageants play, Disguysing diversly my troubled wits.
Sonnet 54
Soone after when my joy to sorrow flits, I waile and make my woes a Tragedy.,
Sonnet 54
Yet she beholding me with constant eye, Delights not in my merth nor rues my smart:
Sonnet 54
But when I laugh she mocks, and when I cry
She laughes, and hardens evermore her hart.,
Sonnet 54
What then can move her? if not merth nor mone
She is no woman, but a sencelesse stone.,
Sonnet 54
One day I wrote her name upon the strand,
But came the waves and washed it away:
Again I wrote it with a second hand,
But came the tide, and made my pains his prey.
Sonnet 75
"Vain man," said she, "that dost in vain assay,
A mortal thing so to immortalize
Sonnet 75
For I myself shall like to this decay,
And eke my name be wiped out likewise."
Sonnet 75
"Not so," (quod I) "let baser things devise
To die in dust, but you shall live by fame:
Sonnet 75
My verse your vertues rare shall eternize,
And in the heavens write your glorious name:
Sonnet 75
Where whenas death shall all the world subdue,
Our love shall live, and later life renew."
Sonnet 75
Mark but this flea, and mark in this, How little that which thou deniest me is
The Flea
It sucked me first, and now sucks thee, And in this flea our two bloods mingled be
The Flea
Thou know'st that this cannot be said, A sin, nor shame, nor loss of maidenhead,
The Flea
Yet this enjoys before it woo, And pampered swells with one blood made of two,
The Flea
And this, alas, is more than we would do. Oh stay, three lives in one flea spare,
The Flea
Where we almost, nay more than married are. This flea is you and I, and this
The Flea
Our marriage bed, and marriage temple is Though parents grudge, and you, w'are met,
The Flea
And cloistered in these living walls of jet. Though use make you apt to kill me,
The Flea
Let not to that, self-murder added be, And sacrilege, three sins in killing three.
The Flea
Cruel and sudden, hast thou since Purpled thy nail, in blood of innocence?
The Flea
Wherein could this flea guilty be,Except in that drop which it sucked from thee?
The Flea
Yet thou triumph'st, and say'st that thou Find'st not thy self, nor me the weaker now
The Flea
'Tis true then learn how false, fears be: Just so much honor, when thou yield'st to me,
The Flea
Will waste, as this flea's death took life from thee.
The Flea
Had we but world enough and time
This coyness, lady, were no crime.
We would sit down, and think which way,
To walk, and pass our long love's day.
To his coy mistress
Thou by the Indian Ganges' side,
Shouldst rubies find: I by the tide
Of Humber would complain. I would,
Love you ten years before the flood,
To his coy mistress
And you should, if you please, refuse
Till the conversion of the Jews.
My vegetable love should grow
Vaster than empires and more slow
To his coy mistress
An hundred years should go to praise
Thine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze
Two hundred to adore each breast,
But thirty thousand to the rest
To his coy mistress
An age at least to every part,
And the last age should show your heart.
For, lady, you deserve this state,
Nor would I love at lower rate.
To his coy mistress
But at my back I always hear
Time's wingèd chariot hurrying near
And yonder all before us lie
Deserts of vast eternity.
To his coy mistress
Thy beauty shall no more be found
Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound
My echoing song; then worms shall try
That long-preserved virginity,
To his coy mistress
And your quaint honour turn to dust,
And into ashes all my lust
The grave's a fine and private place,
But none, I think, do there embrace.
To his coy mistress
Now therefore, while the youthful hue
Sits on thy skin like morning dew,
And while thy willing soul transpires
At every pore with instant fires,
To his coy mistress
Now let us sport us while we may,
And now, like amorous birds of prey,
Rather at once our time devour
Than languish in his slow-chapped power.
To his coy mistress
Let us roll all our strength and all
Our sweetness up into one ball,
And tear our pleasures with rough strife
Through the iron gates of life:
To his coy mistress
Thus, though we cannot make our sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run.
To his coy mistress
Drink to me only with thine eyes,
And I will pledge with mine
Drink to me only with thine eyes
Or leave a kiss but in the cup,
And I'll not look for wine.
Drink to me only with thine eyes
The thirst that from the soul doth rise
Doth ask a drink divine
Drink to me only with thine eyes
But might I of Jove's nectar sup,
I would not change for thine.
Drink to me only with thine eyes
I sent thee late a rosy wreath,
Not so much honouring thee
Drink to me only with thine eyes
As giving it a hope, that there
It could not withered be.
Drink to me only with thine eyes
But thou thereon didst only breathe,
And sent'st it back to me
Drink to me only with thine eyes
Since when it grows, and smells, I swear,
Not of itself, but thee.
Drink to me only with thine eyes
In this strange Labyrinth how shall I turn,
Ways are on all sides while the way I miss:
Sonnet 77
If to the right hand, there, in love I burn,
Let me go forward, therein danger is.
Sonnet 77
If to the left, suspicion hinders bliss
Let me turn back, shame cries I ought return:
Sonnet 77
Nor faint, though crosses my fortunes kiss,
Stand still is harder, although sure to mourn.
Sonnet 77
Thus let me take the right, or left hand way,
Go forward, or stand still, or back retire:
Sonnet 77
I must these doubts endure without allay
Or help, but travail find for my best hire.
Sonnet 77
Yet that which most my troubled sense doth move,
Is to leave all, and take the thread of Love.
Sonnet 77
Busy old fool, unruly sun,
Why dost thou thus,
Through windows, and through curtains call on us?
Must to thy motions lovers' seasons run?
The sun rising
Saucy pedantic wretch, go chide
Late school boys and sour prentices,
Go tell court huntsmen that the king will ride,
Call country ants to harvest offices,
The sun rising
Love, all alike, no season knows nor clime,
Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
Thy beams, so reverend and strong
Why shouldst thou think?
The sun rising