Shakespeare's sonnets illustrated by Henry Ospovat
Dedication
Sonnet 1 - From fairest creatures we desire increase...
Sonnet 2 - When forty winters shall beseige thy brow...
Sonnet 3 - Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest...
Sonnet 4 - Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend...
Sonnet 5 - Those hours, that with gentle work did frame...
Sonnet 6 - Then let not winter's ragged hand deface...
Sonnet 7 - Lo! in the orient when the gracious light...
Sonnet 8 - Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly...
Sonnet 9 - Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye...
Sonnet 10 - For shame! deny that thou bear'st love to any...
Sonnet 11 - As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou growest...
Sonnet 12 - When I do count the clock that tells the time...
Sonnet 13 - O, that you were yourself! but, love, you are...
Sonnet 14 - Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck...
Sonnet 15 - When I consider every thing that grows...
Sonnet 16 - But wherefore do not you a mightier way...
Sonnet 17 - Who will believe my verse in time to come...
Sonnet 18 - Shall I compare thee to a summer's day...
Sonnet 19 - Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws...
Sonnet 20 - A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted...
Sonnet 21 - So is it not with me as with that Muse...
Sonnet 22 - My glass shall not persuade me I am old...
Sonnet 23 - As an unperfect actor on the stage...
Sonnet 24 - Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stell'd...
Sonnet 25 - Let those who are in favour with their stars...
Sonnet 26 - Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage...
Sonnet 27 - Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed...
Sonnet 28 - How can I then return in happy plight...
Sonnet 29 - When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes...
Sonnet 30 - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought...
Sonnet 31 - Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts...
Sonnet 32 - If thou survive my well-contented day...
Sonnet 33 - Full many a glorious morning have I seen...
Sonnet 34 - Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day...
Sonnet 35 - No more be grieved at that which thou hast done...
Sonnet 36 - Let me confess that we two must be twain...
Sonnet 37 - As a decrepit father takes delight...
Sonnet 38 - How can my Muse want subject to invent...
Sonnet 39 - O, how thy worth with manners may I sing...
Sonnet 40 - Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all...
Sonnet 41 - Those petty wrongs that liberty commits...
Sonnet 42 - That thou hast her, it is not all my grief...
Sonnet 43 - When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see...
Sonnet 44 - If the dull substance of my flesh were thought...
Sonnet 45 - The other two, slight air and purging fire...
Sonnet 46 - Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war...
Sonnet 47 - Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took...
Sonnet 48 - How careful was I, when I took my way...
Sonnet 49 - Against that time, if ever that time come...
Sonnet 50 - How heavy do I journey on the way...
Sonnet 51 - Thus can my love excuse the slow offence...
Sonnet 52 - So am I as the rich, whose blessed key...
Sonnet 53 - What is your substance, whereof are you made...
Sonnet 54 - O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem...
Sonnet 55 - Not marble, nor the gilded monuments...
Sonnet 56 - Sweet love, renew thy force...
Sonnet 57 - Being your slave, what should I do but tend...
Sonnet 58 - That god forbid that made me first your slave...
Sonnet 59 - If there be nothing new, but that which is...
Sonnet 60 - Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore...
Sonnet 61 - Is it thy will thy image should keep open...
Sonnet 62 - Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye...
Sonnet 63 - Against my love shall be, as I am now...
Sonnet 64 - When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced...
Sonnet 65 - Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea...
Sonnet 66 - Tired with all these, for restful death I cry...
Sonnet 67 - Ah! wherefore with infection should he live...
Sonnet 68 - Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn...
Sonnet 69 - Those parts of thee that the world's eye doth view...
Sonnet 70 - That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect...
Sonnet 71 - No longer mourn for me when I am dead ...
Sonnet 72 - O, lest the world should task you to recite...
Sonnet 73 - That time of year thou mayst in me behold...
Sonnet 74 - But be contented: when that fell arrest...
Sonnet 75 - So are you to my thoughts as food to life...
Sonnet 76 - Why is my verse so barren of new pride...
Sonnet 77 - Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear...
Sonnet 78 - So oft have I invoked thee for my Muse...
Sonnet 79 - Whilst I alone did call upon thy aid...
Sonnet 80 - O, how I faint when I of you do write...
Sonnet 81 - Or I shall live your epitaph to make...
Sonnet 82 - I grant thou wert not married to my Muse...
Sonnet 83 - I never saw that you did painting need...
Sonnet 84 - Who is it that says most? which can say more...
Sonnet 85 - My tongue-tied Muse in manners holds her still...
Sonnet 86 - Was it the proud full sail of his great verse...
Sonnet 87 - Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing...
Sonnet 88 - When thou shalt be disposed to set me light...
Sonnet 89 - Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault...
Sonnet 90 - Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now...
Sonnet 91 - Some glory in their birth, some in their skill...
Sonnet 92 - But do thy worst to steal thyself away...
Sonnet 93 - So shall I live, supposing thou art true...
Sonnet 94 - They that have power to hurt and will do none...
Sonnet 95 - How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame...
Sonnet 96 - Some say thy fault is youth, some wantonness...
Sonnet 97 - How like a winter hath my absence been...
Sonnet 98 - From you have I been absent in the spring...
Sonnet 99 - The forward violet thus did I chide...
Sonnet 100 - Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long...
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 - In the old age black was not counted fair...
Sonnet 128 - How oft, when thou, my music, music play...
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...
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...
Sonnet 148 - O me, what eyes hath Love put in my head...
Sonnet 149 - Canst thou, O cruel! say I love thee notй...
Sonnet 150 - O, from what power hast thou this powerful might...
Sonnet 151 - Love is too young to know what conscience is...
Sonnet 152 - In loving thee thou know'st I am forsworn...
Sonnet 153 - Cupid laid by his brand, and fell asleep...
Sonnet 154 - The little Love-god lying once asleep...
TO.THE.ONLIE.BEGETTER.OF.
THESE.INSVING.SONNETS.
Mr.W.H. ALL.HAPPINESSE.
AND.THAT.ETERNITIE.
PROMISED.
BY.
OVR.EVER-LIVING.POET.
WISHETH.
THE.WELL-WISHING.
ADVENTVRER.IN.
SETTING.
FORTH.
T. T.
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