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THE SONNETS by William Shakespeare (125)
2023-12-06CXXV Were't aught to me I bore the canopy, With my extern the outward honouring, Or laid great bases for eternity, Which proves more short than wa...
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THE SONNETS by William Shakespeare (126)
2023-12-06CXXVI O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power Dost hold Time's fickle glass, his fickle hour; Who hast by waning grown, and therein show'st Th...
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THE SONNETS by William Shakespeare (127)
2023-12-06CXXVII In the old age black was not counted fair, Or if it were, it bore not beauty's name; But now is black beauty's successive heir, And bea...
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THE SONNETS by William Shakespeare (128)
2023-12-06CXXXIII How oft when thou, my music, music play'st, Upon that blessed wood whose motion sounds With thy sweet fingers when thou gently sway'st...
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THE SONNETS by William Shakespeare (129)
2023-12-06CXXIX The expense of spirit in a waste of shame Is lust in action: and till action, lust Is perjur'd, murderous, bloody, full of blame, Savage, ex...
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THE SONNETS by William Shakespeare (130)
2023-12-06CXXX My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red, than her lips red: If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hair...
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THE SONNETS by William Shakespeare (131)
2023-12-06CXXXI Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art, As those whose beauties proudly make them cruel; For well thou know'st to my dear doting heart Thou a...
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THE SONNETS by William Shakespeare (132)
2023-12-06CXXXII Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain, Have put on black and loving mourners be, Looking with p...
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THE SONNETS by William Shakespeare (133)
2023-12-06CXXXIII Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan For that deep wound it gives my friend and me! Is't not enough to torture me alone, But sl...
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THE SONNETS by William Shakespeare (134)
2023-12-06CXXXIV So, now I have confess'd that he is thine, And I my self am mortgag'd to thy will, Myself I'll forfeit, so that other mine Thou wil...