Shake-speares Sonnets (Quarto 1, 1609)

Author: William Shakespeare

Editors: Hardy M. Cook, Ian Lancashire

Peer Reviewed

Help

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
- Page
  1. 1
  2. 2
  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
  23. 23
  24. 24
  25. 25
  26. 26
  27. 27
  28. 28
  29. 29
  30. 30
  31. 31
  32. 32
  33. 33
  34. 34
  35. 35
  36. 36
  37. 37
  38. 38
  39. 39
  40. 40
  41. 41
  42. 42
  43. 43
  44. 44
  45. 45
  46. 46
  47. 47
  48. 48
  49. 49
  50. 50
  51. 51
  52. 52
  53. 53
  54. 54
  55. 55
  56. 56
  57. 57
  58. 58
  59. 59
  60. 60
  61. 61
  62. 62
  63. 63
  64. 64
  65. 65
  66. 66
  67. 67
  68. 68
  69. 69

76552
¶SO am I as the rich whose blessed key, 
¶Can bring him to his sweet vp-locked treasure, 
¶The which he will not eu'ry hower suruay, 
¶For blunting the fine point of seldome pleasure. 
770Therefore are feasts so sollemne and so rare, 
¶Since sildom comming in the long yeare set, 
¶Like stones of worth they thinly placed are, 
¶Or captaine Iewells in the carconet. 
¶So is the time that keepes you as my chest, 
775Or as the ward-robe which the robe doth hide, 
¶To make some speciall instant speciall blest, 
¶By new vnfoulding his imprison'd pride. 
¶_Blessed are you whose worthinesse giues skope, 
¶Being had to tryumph,_being lackt to hope. 

78053
¶VVHat is your substance,_whereof are you made, 
¶That millions of strange shaddowes on you tend? 
¶Since euery one,_hath euery one,_one shade, 
¶And you but one,_can euery shaddow lend: 
785Describe Adonis and the counterfet, 
¶Is poorely immitated after you, 
¶On Hellens cheeke all art of beautie set, 
¶And you in Grecian tires are painted new: 
¶Speake of the spring,_and foyzon of the yeare, 
790The one doth shaddow of your beautie show, 
¶The other as your bountie doth appeare, 
¶And you in euery blessed shape we know. 
¶_In all externall grace you haue some part, 
¶But you like none,_none you for constant heart. 

79554
¶OH how much more doth beautie beautious seeme, 
¶By that sweet ornament which truth doth giue, 
¶The Rose lookes faire, but fairer we it deeme 
¶For that sweet odor,_which doth in it liue: 
800The Canker bloomes haue full as deepe a die, 
¶As the perfumed tincture of the Roses, 
¶Hang on such thornes,_and play as wantonly, 
¶When sommers breath their masked buds discloses: 
¶But for their virtue only is their show, 
805They liue vnwoo'd, and vnrespected fade, 
¶Die to themselues . Sweet Roses doe not so, 
¶Of their sweet deathes, are sweetest odors made: 
¶_And so of you,_beautious and louely youth, 
¶When that shall vade,_by verse distils your truth. 

Toolbox

Textual Analysis

Shake-speares Sonnets (Quarto 1, 1609)

Toolbox

Search This Text

Textual Analysis

Shake-speares Sonnets (Quarto 1, 1609)