The poet urges the young man…, The poet blames his inability to speak his love on his lack of self-confidence and his too-powerful emotions, and he…, This sonnet elaborates the metaphor of carrying the beloved’s picture in one’s heart. The poet explains that his repeated words of love and praise are like daily prayer; though old, they are always…. The poet accuses the woman of scorning his love not out of virtue but because she is busy making adulterous…, The poet expands on s. 142.9–10 (where he pursues a mistress who pursues others) by presenting a picture of a woman…, The poet’s three-way relationship with the mistress and the young man is here presented as an allegory of a person…, In this sonnet, perhaps written when Shakespeare was very young, the poet plays with the difference between the words “I…. He warns…, Arguing that his poetry is not idolatrous in the sense of “polytheistic,” the poet contends that he celebrates only a…, The poet, in reading descriptions of beautiful knights and ladies in old poetry, realizes that the poets were trying to…. Get in touch here. He…, In this first of two linked sonnets, the poet says that his silence in the face of others’ extravagant praise…, This final “rival poet” sonnet continues from s. 85 but echoes the imagery of s. 80. It goes on to argue that only…, This sonnet, like s. 153, retells the parable of Cupid’s torch turning a fountain into a hot bath, this time to…. Download it to get the same great text as on this site, or purchase a full copy to get the text, plus explanatory notes, illustrations, and more. Everything, he says, is a victim of Time’s scythe…. The poet encourages the beloved…, In this first of a series of three sonnets in which the poet expresses his concern that others are writing…. The poet repeats an idea from s. 59—that there is nothing new under the sun—and accuses Time of tricking us into…. The poet describes a relationship built on mutual deception that deceives neither party: the mistress claims constancy and the poet…, The poet, after refusing to make excuses for the mistress’s wrongs, begs her not to flirt with others in his…, The poet warns the mistress that she would be wiser to pretend to love him and thus avoid driving him…. In this first of two linked sonnets, the poet apparently begs his (promiscuous) mistress to allow him back into her…, In this second sonnet built around wordplay on the word will, the poet continues to plead for a place among the mistress’s…. You can get your own copy of this text to keep. Thus, the love he once…, The poet imagines his poems being read and judged by his beloved after the poet’s death, and he asks that…, The poet describes the sun first in its glory and then after its being covered with dark clouds; this change…, In this sonnet the sun is again overtaken by clouds, but now the sun/beloved is accused of having betrayed the…, The poet excuses the beloved by citing examples of other naturally beautiful objects associated with things hurtful or ugly. This sonnet, like s. 153, retells the parable of Cupid’s torch turning a fountain into a hot bath, this time to argue that the poet’s disease of love is incurable. Filled with self-disgust at having subjected himself to so many evils in the course of his infidelity, the poet nevertheless…, In this fourth sonnet about his unkindness to the beloved, the poet comforts himself with the memory of the time…, The poet responds to slurs about his behavior by claiming that he is no worse (and is perhaps better) than…. The poet explains that his silence is…, The poet writes as if his relationship with the beloved has ended—and as if that relationship had been a wonderful…, In this first of three linked sonnets in which the poet has been (or imagines himself someday to be) repudiated…, This sonnet is a detailed extension of the closing line of s. 88. Synopsis. This sonnet addresses the hard question of why the poet has given away the beloved’s gift of a writing tablet…. He then admits that the…, By preserving the youthful beauty of the beloved in poetry, the poet makes preparation for the day that the beloved…, Signs of the destructive power of time and decay—such as fallen towers and eroded beaches—force the poet to admit that…, In the face of the terrible power of Time, how, the poet asks, can beauty survive? In this second sonnet of self-accusation, the poet uses analogies of eating and of purging to excuse his infidelities. The poet, in apparent response to accusation, claims that his love (and, perhaps, his poetry of praise) is not basely…, The poet acknowledges that the beloved young man grows lovelier with time, as if Nature has chosen him as her…, The poet defends his love of a mistress who does not meet the conventional standard of beauty by claiming that…, This sonnet uses the conventional poetic idea of the poet envying an object being touched by the beloved. The…, This sonnet seems to have been written to accompany the gift of a blank notebook. He finds the beloved so essential to his life that…, The poet poses the question of why his poetry never changes but keeps repeating the same language and technique. The poet describes his heart as going against his senses and his mind in its determination to love. The poet here lists the ways he will…, Continuing from the final line of s. 89, this sonnet begs the beloved to deliver quickly any terrible blow that awaits…, In this first of three linked sonnets, the poet sets the love of the beloved above every other treasure, but…, Continuing the argument from s. 91, the poet, imagining the loss of the beloved, realizes gladly that since even the smallest…, The poet explores the implications of the final line of s. 92. Though he has flattered…. The poet turns his accusations against the woman’s inconstancy and oath-breaking against himself, accusing himself of deliberate blindness and perjury. As in s. 36, the poet finds reasons to excuse the fact that he and the beloved are parted.

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