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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  3. 3
  4. 4
  5. 5
  6. 6
  7. 7
  8. 8
  9. 9
  10. 10
  11. 11
  12. 12
  13. 13
  14. 14
  15. 15
  16. 16
  17. 17
  18. 18
  19. 19
  20. 20
  21. 21
  22. 22
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  27. 27
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  33. 33
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  37. 37
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  40. 40
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  42. 42
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  45. 45
  46. 46
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  48. 48
  49. 49
  50. 50
  51. 51
  52. 52
  53. 53
  54. 54
  55. 55
  56. 56
  57. 57
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  60. 60
  61. 61
  62. 62
  63. 63
  64. 64
  65. 65
  66. 66
  67. 67
  68. 68
  69. 69

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¶WHen most I winke then doe mine eyes best see, 
¶For all the day they view things vnrespected, 
¶But when I sleepe,_in dreames they looke on thee, 
¶And darkely bright,_are bright in darke directed. 
635Then thou whose shaddow shaddowes doth make bright, 
¶How would thy shadowes forme,_forme happy show, 
¶To the cleere day with thy much cleerer light, 
¶When to vn-seeing eyes thy shade shines so? 
¶How would(I say)mine eyes be blessed made,
640By looking on thee in the liuing day ? 
¶When in dead night their faire imperfect shade, 
¶Through heauy sleepe on sightlesse eyes doth stay? 
¶_All dayes are nights to see till I see thee, 
¶And nights bright daies when dreams do shew thee me, 

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¶IF the dull substance of my flesh were thought, 
¶Iniurious distance should not stop my way, 
¶For then dispight of space I would be brought, 
¶From limits farre remote,_where thou doost stay, 
650No matter then although my foote did stand 
¶Vpon the farthest earth remoou'd from thee, 
¶For nimble thought can iumpe both sea and land, 
¶As soone as thinke the place where he would be. 
¶But ah,_thought kills me that I am not thought 
655To leape large lengths of miles when thou art gone, 
¶But that so much of earth and water wrought, 
¶I must attend,_times leasure with my mone. 
¶_Receiuing naughts by elements so sloe, 
¶But heauie teares,_badges of eithers woe. 

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¶THe other two,_slight ayre,_and purging fire, 
¶Are both with thee,_where euer I abide, 
¶The first my thought,_the other my desire, 
¶These present absent with swift motion slide. 
665For when these quicker Elements are gone 
¶In tender Embassie of loue to thee, 
¶My life being made of foure,_with two alone, 
¶Sinkes downe to death,_opprest with melancholie. 
¶Vntill liues composition be recured, 
670By those swift messengers return'd from thee, 
¶Who euen but now come back againe assured, 
¶Of their faire health,_recounting it to me. 
¶_This told,_I ioy,_but then no longer glad, 
¶_I send them back againe and straight grow sad. 

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