Sonnet LXXXV: Vain Virtues
Sonnet LXXXV: Vain Virtues What is the sorriest thing that enters Hell? None of the sins,—but this and that fair deed Which a soul’s sin at […]
READ MORESonnet LXXXVI: Lost Days
Sonnet LXXXVI: Lost Days The lost days of my life until to-day, What were they, could I see them on the street Lie as they fell? […]
READ MORESonnet LXXXVII: Death’s Songsters
Sonnet LXXXVII: Death’s Songsters When first that horse, within whose populous womb The birth was death, o’ershadowed Troy with fate, Her elders, dubious of its Grecian […]
READ MORESonnet LXXXVIII: Hero’s Lamp
Sonnet LXXXVIII: Hero’s Lamp That lamp thou fill’st in Eros’ name to-night, O Hero, shall the Sestian augurs take To-morrow, and for drowned Leander’s sake To […]
READ MORESonnet V: Heart’s Hope
Sonnet V: Heart’s Hope By what word’s power, the key of paths untrod, Shall I the difficult deeps of Love explore, Till parted waves of Song […]
READ MORESonnet VI: The Kiss
Sonnet VI: The Kiss What smouldering senses in death’s sick delay Or seizure of malign vicissitude Can rob this body of honour, or denude This soul […]
READ MORESonnet VII: Supreme Surrender
Sonnet VII: Supreme Surrender To all the spirits of Love that wander by Along his love-sown harvest-field of sleep My lady lies apparent; and the deep […]
READ MORESonnet VIII: Love’s Lovers
Sonnet VIII: Love’s Lovers Some ladies love the jewels in Love’s zone, And gold-tipped darts he hath for painless play In idle scornful hours he flings […]
READ MORESonnet X: The Portrait
Sonnet X: The Portrait O Lord of all compassionate control, O Love! let this my lady’s picture glow Under my hand to praise her name, and […]
READ MORESonnet XC: “Retro Me, Sathana!”
Sonnet XC: “Retro Me, Sathana!” Get thee behind me. Even as, heavy-curled, Stooping against the wind, a charioteer Is snatched from out his chariot by the […]
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