«Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy ‘Will,’ And ‘Will’ to boot, and ‘Will’ in overplus». The punning […] Sonnet 135
«So, now I have confess’d that he is thine, And I myself am mortgaged to thy will». The […] Sonnet 134
«Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan For that deep wound it gives my friend and […] Sonnet 133
«Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torments me with disdain». Sonnet 132 […] Sonnet 132
«Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art, As those whose beauties proudly make them cruel». The poet […] Sonnet 131
«My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips’ red». Sonnet […] Sonnet 130
«The expense of spirit in a waste of shame Is lust in action; and till action, lust». The […] Sonnet 129
«How oft, when thou, my music, music play’st, Upon that blessed wood whose motion sounds». Sonnet 128 is […] Sonnet 128
«In the old age black was not counted fair, Or if it were, it bore not beauty’s name». […] Sonnet 127
«O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power Dost hold Time’s fickle glass, his sickle, hour». Sonnet […] Sonnet 126
«Were ‘t aught to me I bore the canopy, With my extern the outward honouring’». For the poet, […] Sonnet 125
«If my dear love were but the child of state, It might for Fortune’s bastard be unfather’d’». Developing […] Sonnet 124
«No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change: Thy pyramids built up with newer might». The […] Sonnet 123
«Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain Full character’d with lasting memory». Just as the poet gave […] Sonnet 122
«‘Tis better to be vile than vile esteem’d, When not to be receives reproach of being». The poet […] Sonnet 121
«That you were once unkind befriends me now, And for that sorrow which I then did feel». The […] Sonnet 120
«What potions have I drunk of Siren tears, Distill’d from limbecks foul as hell within». Arguing that his […] Sonnet 119
«Like as, to make our appetites more keen, With eager compounds we our palate urge». The poet now […] Sonnet 118
«Accuse me thus: that I have scanted all Wherein I should your great deserts repay». The poet abruptly […] Sonnet 117