SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS This is the web site of Shakespeare's sonnets COMMENTARIES SONNETS 1-50 Map of the site Other texts of the period text facsimiles Back to home page General notes Sonnets 1 - 50 Sonnets 51 - 100 Sonnets 101 - 154 1 From fairest creatures we desire increase Commentary Extended commentary 2 When forty winters shall besiege thy brow Commentary 3 Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest Commentary 4 Unthrifty loveliness why dost thou spend Commentary 5 Those hours that with gentle work did frame Commentary 6 Then let not winter's ragged hand deface Commentary 7 Lo in the Orient when the gracious light Commentary 8 Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly? Commentary 9 Is it for fear to wet a widows eye Commentary 10 For shame deny that thou bear'st love to any Commentary 11 As fast as thou shalt wane so fast thou grow'st Commentary 12 When I do count the clock that tells the time Commentary 13 O that you were yourself, but love you are Commentary Extended commentary 14 Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck Commentary 15 When I consider everything that grows Commentary 16 But wherefore do not you a mightier way Commentary 17 Who will believe my verse in time to come Commentary 18 Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day? Commentary 19 Devouring time blunt thou the lion's paws Commentary 20 A woman's face with nature's own hand painted Commentary 21 So is it not with me as with that Muse Commentary 22 My glass shall not persuade me I am old Commentary 23 As an unperfect actor on the stage Commentary 24 Mine eye hath played the painter and hath steel'd Commentary 25 Let those who are in favour with their stars Commentary 26 Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage Commentary 27 Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed Commentary 28 How can I then return in happy plight Commentary 29 When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes Commentary Extended commentary 30 When to the sessions of sweet silent thought Commentary 31 Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts Commentary 32 If thou survive my well contented day Commentary 33 Full many a glorious morning have I seen Commentary 34 Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day Commentary 35 No more be grieved at that which thou hast done Commentary 36 Let me confess that we two must be twain Commentary 37 As a decrepit father takes delight Commentary Extended commentary 38 How can my Muse want subject to invent Commentary 39 Oh how thy worth with manners may I sing Commentary 40 Take all my loves, my love, yea take them all Commentary 41 Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits Commentary 42 That thou hast her it is not all my grief Commentary 43 When most I wink then do mine eyes best see Commentary 44 If the dull substance of my flesh were thought Commentary 45 The other two, slight air and purging fire Commentary 46 Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war Commentary 47 Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took Commentary 48 How careful was I when I took my way Commentary 49 Against that time, if ever that time come Commentary 50 How heavy do I journey on my way. Commentary Back to home page Comments on this site: please refer to the home page. Copyright of this site belongs to Oxquarry Books Ltd
COMMENTARIES
SONNETS 1-50
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Other texts of the period
text facsimiles
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General notes
Sonnets 1 - 50
Sonnets 51 - 100
Sonnets 101 - 154