Shakespeare’s Sonnets are some of the most fascinating and influential poems written in English. First published in 1609, […] Sonnets 21-40
«Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all; What hast thou then more than thou hadst […] Sonnet 40
«How can my Muse want subject to invent, While thou dost breathe, that pour’st into my verse». Like […] Sonnet 38
«As a decrepit father takes delight To see his active child do deeds of youth». Sonnet 37, which […] Sonnet 37
«Let me confess that we two must be twain, Although our undivided loves are one». Obstacles to the […] Sonnet 36
«No more be grieved at that which thou hast done: Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud». Whereas […] Sonnet 35
«Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day, And make me travel forth without my cloak». The poet […] Sonnet 34
«Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye». Sonnet 33 begins a […] Sonnet 33
«If thou survive my well-contented day, When that churl Death my bones with dust shall cover». Sonnet 32 […] Sonnet 32
«Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts, Which I by lacking have supposed dead». Sonnet 31 expands upon […] Sonnet 31
«When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past». The poet repeats […] Sonnet 30
«When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state». Resenting his bad […] Sonnet 29
«How can I then return in happy plight, That am debarr’d the benefit of rest?». Images of absence, […] Sonnet 28
«Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed, The dear repose for limbs with travel tired». The […] Sonnet 27
«Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage Thy merit hath my duty strongly knit». Sonnet 26 prepares […] Sonnet 26
«Let those who are in favour with their stars Of public honour and proud titles boast». In Sonnet […] Sonnet 25
«Mine eye hath play’d the painter and hath stell’d Thy beauty’s form in table of my heart». When […] Sonnet 24
«As an unperfect actor on the stage Who with his fear is put besides his part». Most of […] Sonnet 23