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Shakespeare's Sonnets Introduction

Sonnet 101: O truant Muse, what shall be thy amends

Sonnet 102: My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming;

Sonnet 103: Alack, what poverty my Muse brings forth,

Sonnet 104: To me, fair friend, you never can be old

Sonnet 105: Let not my love be call'd idolatry,

Sonnet 106: When in the chronicle of wasted time

Sonnet 107: Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul

Sonnet 108: What's in the brain that ink may character

Sonnet 109: O, never say that I was false of heart

Sonnet 110: Alas, 'tis true I have gone here and there

Sonnet 111: O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide,

Sonnet 112: Your love and pity doth the impression fill

Sonnet 113: Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind;

Sonnet 114: Or whether doth my mind, being crown'd with you,

Sonnet 115: Those lines that I before have writ do lie,

Sonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Sonnet 117: Accuse me thus: that I have scanted all

Sonnet 118: Like as, to make our appetites more keen,

Sonnet 119: What potions have I drunk of Siren tears,

Sonnet 120: That you were once unkind befriends me now,

Sonnet 121: 'Tis better to be vile than vile esteem'd,

Sonnet 122: Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain

Sonnet 123: No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change:

Sonnet 124: If my dear love were but the child of state,

Sonnet 125: Were 't aught to me I bore the canopy,

Sonnet 126: O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power

Sonnet 127: If it were, it bore not beauty's name;

Sonnet 128: Oft, when thou, my music, music play'st,

Sonnet 129: The expense of spirit in a waste of shame

Sonnet 130: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun

Sonnet 131: Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art,

Sonnet 132:Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me,

Sonnet 133: Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan

Sonnet 134: So, now I have confess'd that he is thine,

Sonnet 135: Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy 'Will,'

Sonnet 136: If thy soul cheque thee that I come so near,

Sonnet 137: Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes,

Sonnet 138: When my love swears that she is made of truth

Sonnet 139: O, call not me to justify the wrong

Sonnet 140: Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press

Sonnet 141: In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes

Sonnet 142: Love is my sin and thy dear virtue hate

Sonnet 143: Lo! as a careful housewife runs to catch

Sonnet 144: Two loves I have of comfort and despair

Sonnet 145: Those lips that Love's own hand did make

Sonnet 146: Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth,

Sonnet 147: My love is as a fever, longing still