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«That you were once unkind befriends me now, And for that sorrow which I then did feel».  The […]

«What potions have I drunk of Siren tears, Distill’d from limbecks foul as hell within».  Arguing that his […]

«Like as, to make our appetites more keen, With eager compounds we our palate urge».  The poet now […]

«Accuse me thus: that I have scanted all Wherein I should your great deserts repay».  The poet abruptly […]

«Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love».  Despite the confessional […]

«Those lines that I before have writ do lie, Even those that said I could not love you […]

«Or whether doth my mind, being crown’d with you, Drink up the monarch’s plague, this flattery?».  Continuing the […]

«Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind; And that which governs me to go about».  […]

«Your love and pity doth the impression fill Which vulgar scandal stamp’d upon my brow».  The first two […]

«O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds».  Sonnet 111 […]

«Alas, ‘tis true I have gone here and there And made myself a motley to the view».  The […]

«O, never say that I was false of heart, Though absence seem’d my flame to qualify».  Sonnet 109 […]

«What’s in the brain that ink may character Which hath not figured to thee my true spirit?».  Admitting […]

«Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come».  Whereas […]

«When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions of the fairest wights».  Sonnet 106 is addressed […]

«Let not my love be call’d idolatry, Nor my beloved as an idol show».  As if it weren’t […]

«To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I […]

«Alack, what poverty my Muse brings forth, That having such a scope to show her pride».  The poet […]

«My love is strengthen’d, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear».  […]

«O truant Muse, what shall be thy amends For thy neglect of truth in beauty dyed?».  Continuing his […]