sonnet 31
Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts, Which I by lacking have supposed dead; And there reigns Love, and all Love's loving parts, And...
sonnet 30
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And...
sonnet 29
When in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And...
sonnet 28
How can I then return in happy plight, That am debarred the benefit of rest? When day's oppression is not eas'd by night, But day by...
sonnet 27
Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed, The dear repose for limbs with travel tired; But then begins a journey in my head To work my...
sonnet 26
Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage Thy merit hath my duty strongly knit, To thee I send this written embassage, To witness duty,...
sonnet 25
Let those who are in favour with their stars Of public honour and proud titles boast, Whilst I, whom fortune of such triumph bars ...
sonnet 24
Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath steel'd, Thy beauty's form in table of my heart; My body is the frame wherein 'tis held, And...
sonnet 23
As an unperfect actor on the stage, Who with his fear is put beside his part, Or some fierce thing replete with too much rage, Whose...
sonnet 22
My glass shall not persuade me I am old, So long as youth and thou are of one date; But when in thee time's furrows I behold, Then...
