Shake-speares Sonnets (Quarto 1, 1609)

Author: William Shakespeare

Editors: Hardy M. Cook, Ian Lancashire

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The Sonnets (Modern)
- Work
- Poem
  1. Dedication
  2. 1 — 3
  3. 4 — 6
  4. 7 — 9
  5. 10 — 12
  6. 13 — 15
  7. 16 — 18
  8. 19 — 21
  9. 22 — 24
  10. 25 — 27
  11. 28 — 30
  12. 31 — 33
  13. 34 — 36
  14. 37 — 39
  15. 40 — 42
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  18. 49 — 51
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  20. 55 — 57
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  34. 97 — 99
  35. 100 — 102
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  38. 109 — 111
  39. 112 — 114
  40. 115 — 117
  41. 118 — 120
  42. 121 — 123
  43. 124 — 126
  44. 127 — 129
  45. 130 — 132
  46. 133 — 135
  47. 136 — 138
  48. 139 — 141
  49. 142 — 144
  50. 145 — 147
  51. 148 — 150
  52. 151 — 153
  53. 154
Shake-speares Sonnets (Quarto 1, 1609)
- Work
- Poem
  1. Titlepage
  2. Dedication
  3. 1 — 3
  4. 4 — 6
  5. 7 — 9
  6. 10 — 12
  7. 13 — 15
  8. 16 — 18
  9. 19 — 21
  10. 22 — 24
  11. 25 — 27
  12. 28 — 30
  13. 31 — 33
  14. 34 — 36
  15. 37 — 39
  16. 40 — 42
  17. 43 — 45
  18. 46 — 48
  19. 49 — 51
  20. 52 — 54
  21. 55 — 57
  22. 58 — 60
  23. 61 — 63
  24. 64 — 66
  25. 67 — 69
  26. 70 — 72
  27. 73 — 75
  28. 76 — 78
  29. 79 — 81
  30. 82 — 84
  31. 85 — 87
  32. 88 — 90
  33. 91 — 93
  34. 94 — 96
  35. 97 — 99
  36. 100 — 102
  37. 103 — 105
  38. 106 — 108
  39. 109 — 111
  40. 112 — 114
  41. 115 — 117
  42. 118 — 120
  43. 121 — 123
  44. 124 — 126
  45. 127 — 129
  46. 130 — 132
  47. 133 — 135
  48. 136 — 138
  49. 139 — 141
  50. 142 — 144
  51. 145 — 147
  52. 148 — 150
  53. 151 — 153
  54. 154
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¶I03
¶ALack what pouerty my Muse brings forth, 
¶That hauing such a skope to show her pride, 
¶The argument all bare is of more worth 
1535Then when it hath my added praise beside. 
¶Oh blame me not if I no more can write! 
¶Looke in your glasse and there appeares a face, 
¶That ouer-goes my blunt inuention quite, 
¶Dulling my lines,_and doing me disgrace. 
1540Were it not sinfull then striuing to mend, 
¶To marre the subiect that before was well, 
¶For to no other passe my verses tend, 
¶Then of your graces and your gifts to tell. 
¶_And more,_much more then in my verse can sit, 
1545Your owne glasse showes you,_when you looke in it. 

¶I04
¶TO me faire friend you neuer can be old, 
¶For as you were when first your eye I eyde, 
¶Such seemes your beautie still:Three Winters colde, 
1550Haue from the forrests shooke three summers pride, 
¶Three beautious springs to yellow Autumne turn'd, 
¶In processe of the seasons haue I seene, 
¶Three Aprill perfumes in three hot Iunes burn'd, 
¶Since first I saw you fresh which yet are greene. 
1555Ah yet doth beauty like a Dyall hand, 
¶Steale from his figure,_and no pace perceiu'd, 
¶So your sweete hew,_which me thinkes still doth stand 
¶Hath motion,_and mine eye may be deceaued. 
¶_For feare of which,_heare this thou age vnbred, 
1560Ere you were borne was beauties summer dead. 

¶I05
¶LEt not my loue be cal'd Idolatrie, 
¶Nor my beloued as an Idoll show, 
¶Since all alike my songs and praises be 
1565To one,_of one,_still such,_and euer so. 
¶Kinde is my loue to day,_to morrow kinde, 
¶Still constant in a wondrous excellence, 
¶Therefore my verse to constancie confin'de, 
¶One thing expressing,_leaues out difference. 
1570Faire,_kinde,_and true,_is all my argument, 
¶Faire,_kinde and true,_varrying to other words, 
¶And in this change is my inuention spent, 
¶Three theams in one,_which wondrous scope affords. 
¶_Faire,_kinde,_and true,_haue often liu'd alone. 
1575_Which three till now,_neuer kept seate in one. 

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