Sonnet IV: These Plaintive Verses
Sonnet IV: These Plaintive Verses These plaintive verses, the Posts of my desire, Which haste for succour to her slow regard: Bear not report of any […]
READ MORESonnet IX: If This Be Love
Sonnet IX: If This Be Love If this be love, to draw a weary breath, Paint on floods, till the shore, cry to th’air, With downward […]
READ MORESonnet L: Beauty, Sweet Love
Sonnet L: Beauty, Sweet Love Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew Whose short refresh upon the tender green Cheers for a time but till […]
READ MORESonnet LI: I Must Not Grieve My Love
Sonnet LI: I Must Not Grieve My Love I must not grieve my Love, whose eyes would read Lines of delight, whereon her youth might smile; […]
READ MORESonnet LII: O Whether
Sonnet LII: O Whether At the Author’s Going into Italy O whether (poor forsaken) wilt thou go, To go from sorrow and thine own distress, When […]
READ MORESonnet LIII: Drawn
Sonnet LIII: Drawn Drawn by th’attractive virtue of her eyes, My touch’d heart turns it to that happy coast; My joyful North, where all my fortune […]
READ MORESonnet LIX: Unhappy Pen
Sonnet LIX: Unhappy Pen Unhappy pen and ill-accepted papers, That intimate in vain my chaste desires, My chaste desires, the ever-burning tapers Enkindled by her eyes’ […]
READ MORESonnet LV: Let Others Sing
Sonnet LV: Let Others Sing Let others sing of Knights and Paladins In aged accents and untimely words, Paint shadows in imaginary lines Which well the […]
READ MORESonnet LVI: As to the Roman
Sonnet LVI: As to the Roman As to the Roman that would free his land, His error was his honor and renown And more the fame […]
READ MORESonnet LVII: Like As the Lute
Sonnet LVII: Like As the Lute Like as the lute that joys or else dislikes As in his art that plays upon the same, So sounds […]
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