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«A woman’s face with Nature’s own hand painted Hast thou, the master-mistress of my passion».  In this crucial, […]

«Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion’s paws, And make the earth devour her own sweet brood».  In Sonnet […]

«Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate».  One of the […]

«Who will believe my verse in time to come, If it were fill’d with your most high deserts?».  […]

«But wherefore do not you a mightier way Make war upon this bloody tyrant, Time?».  Sonnet 16 continues […]

«When I consider every thing that grows Holds in perfection but a little moment,».  In Sonnet 15‘s first […]

«Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck; And yet methinks I have astronomy,».  Sonnet 13 depends […]

«O, that you were yourself! but, love, you are No longer yours than you yourself here live».  Sonnet […]

«When I do count the clock that tells the time, And see the brave day sunk in hideous […]

«As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou growest In one of thine, from that which thou […]

«For shame deny that thou bear’st love to any, Who for thyself art so unprovident».  Sonnet 10 repeats […]

«Music to hear, why hear’st thou music sadly? Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy».  In […]

«Lo! in the orient when the gracious light Lifts up his burning head, each under eye».  The poet […]

«Then let not winter’s ragged hand deface In thee thy summer, ere thou be distill’d».  Sonnet 6 continues the […]

«Those hours, that with gentle work did frame The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell».  Sonnet 5 […]

«Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend Upon thyself thy beauty’s legacy?».  The themes of narcissism and usury (meant […]

«When forty winters shall beseige thy brow, And dig deep trenches in thy beauty’s field,».  Sonnet 2 continues […]

«From fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beauty’s rose might never die».  Shakespeare begins his sonnets by […]