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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¶LOe in the Orient when the gracious light, 
¶Lifts vp his burning head,_each vnder eye 
¶Doth homage to his new appearing sight, 
¶Seruing with lookes his sacred maiesty, 
95And hauing climb'd the steepe vp heauenly hill, 
¶Resembling strong youth in his middle age, 
¶Yet mortall lookes adore his beauty still, 
¶Attending on his goulden pilgrimage: 
¶But when from high-most pich with wery car, 
100Like feeble age he reeleth from the day, 
¶The eyes(fore dutious)now conuerted are 
¶From his low tract and looke an other way: 
¶_So thou,_thy selfe out-going in thy noon: 
¶Vnlok'd on diest vnlesse thou get a sonne. 

1058
¶MVsick to heare,_why hear'st thou musick sadly, 
¶Sweets with sweets warre not ,_ioy delights in ioy: 
¶Why lou'st thou that which thou receaust not gladly, 
¶Or else receau'st with pleasure thine annoy ? 
110If the true concord of well tuned sounds, 
¶By vnions married do offend thine eare, 
¶They do but sweetly chide thee , who confounds 
¶In singlenesse the parts that thou should'st beare:
¶Marke how one string sweet husband to an other, 
115Strikes each in each by mutuall ordering; 
¶Resembling sier,_and child,_and happy mother, 
¶Who all in one,_one pleasing note do sing: 
¶_Whose speechlesse song being many,_seeming one, 
¶Sings this to thee thou single wilt proue none. 

1209.
¶IS it for feare to wet a widdowes eye, 
¶That thou consum'st thy selfe in single life? 
¶Ah;if thou issulesse shalt hap to die, 
¶The world will waile thee like a makelesse wife, 
125The world wilbe thy widdow and still weepe, 
¶That thou no forme of thee hast left behind , 
¶When euery priuat widdow well may keepe, 
¶By childrens eyes,_her husbands shape in minde: 
¶Looke what an vnthrift in the world doth spend 
130Shifts but his place,_for still the world inioyes it 
¶But beauties waste hath in the world an end, 
¶And kept vnvsde the vser so destroyes it: 
¶_No loue toward others in that bosome sits 
¶_That on himselfe such murdrous shame commits. 

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