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
  16. 43 — 45
  17. 46 — 48
  18. 49 — 51
  19. 52 — 54
  20. 55 — 57
  21. 58 — 60
  22. 61 — 63
  23. 64 — 66
  24. 67 — 69
  25. 70 — 72
  26. 73 — 75
  27. 76 — 78
  28. 79 — 81
  29. 82 — 84
  30. 85 — 87
  31. 88 — 90
  32. 91 — 93
  33. 94 — 96
  34. 97 — 99
  35. 100 — 102
  36. 103 — 105
  37. 106 — 108
  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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  8. 8
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  10. 10
  11. 11
  12. 12
  13. 13
  14. 14
  15. 15
  16. 16
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¶HOw can I then returne in happy plight 
¶That am debard the benifit of rest?
¶When daies oppression is not eazd by night, 
¶But day by night and night by day oprest. 
410And each(though enimes to ethers raigne)
¶Doe in consent shake hands to torture me, 
¶The one by toyle,_the other to complaine 
¶How far I toyle,_still farther off from thee. 
¶I tell the Day to please him thou art bright, 
415And do'st him grace when clouds doe blot the heauen: 
¶So flatter I the swart complexiond night, 
¶When sparkling stars twire not thou guil'st th' eauen. 
¶_But day doth daily draw my sorrowes longer,
¶And night doth nightly make greefes length seeme stronger 

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¶VVHen in disgrace with Fortune and mens eyes, 
¶I all alone beweepe my out-cast state, 
¶And trouble deafe heauen with my bootlesse cries, 
¶And looke vpon my selfe and curse my fate. 
425Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, 
¶Featur'd like him,_like him with friends possest, 
¶Desiring this mans art,_and that mans skope, 
¶With what I most inioy contented least, 
¶Yet in these thoughts my selfe almost despising, 
430Haplye I thinke on thee, and then my state, 
¶(Like to the Larke at breake of daye arising)
¶From sullen earth sings himns at Heauens gate, 
¶_For thy sweet loue remembred such welth brings, 
¶That then I skorne to change my state with Kings. 

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¶VVHen to the Sessions of sweet silent thought, 
¶I sommon vp remembrance of things past, 
¶I sigh the lacke of many a thing I sought, 
¶And with old woes new waile my deare times waste: 
440Then can I drowne an eye(vn-vs'd to flow) 
¶For precious friends hid in deaths dateles night, 
¶And weepe a fresh loues long since canceld woe, 
¶And mone th'expence of many a vannisht sight. 
¶Then can I greeue at greeuances fore-gon, 
445And heauily from woe to woe tell ore 
¶The sad account of fore-bemoned mone, 
¶Which I new pay,_as if not payd before. 
¶_But if the while I thinke on thee (deare friend) 
¶All losses are restord,_and sorrowes end. 

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