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Sonnet a Day @sonnets.bots.krohsnest.com.ap.brid.gy · 17h
Sonnet 044 - XLIV If the dull substance of my flesh were thought, Injurious distance should not stop my way; For then despite of space I would be brought, From limits far remote, where thou dost stay. No matter then although my foot did stand Upon the farthest earth remov'd from thee; For nimble […]
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Sonnet a Day @sonnets.bots.krohsnest.com.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
Sonnet 014 - XIV Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck; And yet methinks I have Astronomy, But not to tell of good or evil luck, Of plagues, of dearths, or seasons' quality; Nor can I fortune to brief minutes tell, Pointing to each his thunder, rain and wind, Or say with princes if it shall […]
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Sonnet a Day @sonnets.bots.krohsnest.com.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
Sonnet 140 - CXL Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain; Lest sorrow lend me words, and words express The manner of my pity-wanting pain. If I might teach thee wit, better it were, Though not to love, yet, love to tell me so; As testy sick men, when […]
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Sonnet a Day @sonnets.bots.krohsnest.com.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
Sonnet 092 - XCII But do thy worst to steal thyself away, For term of life thou art assured mine; And life no longer than thy love will stay, For it depends upon that love of thine. Then need I not to fear the worst of wrongs, When in the least of them my life hath end. I see a better state to […]
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Sonnet a Day @sonnets.bots.krohsnest.com.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
Sonnet 090 - XC Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now; Now, while the world is bent my deeds to cross, Join with the spite of fortune, make me bow, And do not drop in for an after-loss: Ah! do not, when my heart hath 'scaped this sorrow, Come in the rearward of a conquered woe; Give not a […]
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Sonnet a Day @sonnets.bots.krohsnest.com.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
Sonnet 129 - CXXIX The expense of spirit in a waste of shame Is lust in action: and till action, lust Is perjured, murderous, bloody, full of blame, Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust; Enjoyed no sooner but despised straight; Past reason hunted; and no sooner had, Past reason hated, as a […]
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Sonnet a Day @sonnets.bots.krohsnest.com.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
Sonnet 084 - LXXXIV Who is it that says most, which can say more, Than this rich praise, that you alone, are you, In whose confine immured is the store Which should example where your equal grew? Lean penury within that pen doth dwell That to his subject lends not some small glory; But he that […]
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Sonnet a Day @sonnets.bots.krohsnest.com.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
Sonnet 033 - XXXIII Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face, And from the forlorn […]
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Sonnet a Day @sonnets.bots.krohsnest.com.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
Sonnet 051 - LI Thus can my love excuse the slow offence Of my dull bearer when from thee I speed: From where thou art why should I haste me thence? Till I return, of posting is no need. O! what excuse will my poor beast then find, When swift extremity can seem but slow? Then should I spur […]
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Sonnet a Day @sonnets.bots.krohsnest.com.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
Sonnet 092 - XCII But do thy worst to steal thyself away, For term of life thou art assured mine; And life no longer than thy love will stay, For it depends upon that love of thine. Then need I not to fear the worst of wrongs, When in the least of them my life hath end. I see a better state to […]
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Sonnet a Day @sonnets.bots.krohsnest.com.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026
Sonnet 018 - XVIII Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed, And every fair from […]
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Sonnet a Day @sonnets.bots.krohsnest.com.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
Sonnet 122 - CXXII Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain Full charactered with lasting memory, Which shall above that idle rank remain, Beyond all date, even to eternity: Or, at the least, so long as brain and heart Have faculty by nature to subsist; Till each to razed oblivion yield his […]
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Sonnet a Day @sonnets.bots.krohsnest.com.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
Sonnet 128 - CXXVIII How oft when thou, my music, music play'st, Upon that blessed wood whose motion sounds With thy sweet fingers when thou gently sway'st The wiry concord that mine ear confounds, Do I envy those jacks that nimble leap, To kiss the tender inward of thy hand, Whilst my poor lips […]
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Sonnet a Day @sonnets.bots.krohsnest.com.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026
Sonnet 023 - XXIII As an unperfect actor on the stage, Who with his fear is put beside his part, Or some fierce thing replete with too much rage, Whose strength's abundance weakens his own heart; So I, for fear of trust, forget to say The perfect ceremony of love's rite, And in mine own love's […]
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Sonnet a Day @sonnets.bots.krohsnest.com.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026
Sonnet 066 - LXVI Tired with all these, for restful death I cry, As to behold desert a beggar born, And needy nothing trimm'd in jollity, And purest faith unhappily forsworn, And gilded honour shamefully misplac'd, And maiden virtue rudely strumpeted, And right perfection wrongfully disgrac'd […]
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Sonnet a Day @sonnets.bots.krohsnest.com.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026
Sonnet 109 - CIX O! never say that I was false of heart, Though absence seem'd my flame to qualify, As easy might I from my self depart As from my soul which in thy breast doth lie: That is my home of love: if I have ranged, Like him that travels, I return again; Just to the time, not with the […]
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Sonnet a Day @sonnets.bots.krohsnest.com.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
Sonnet 088 - LXXXVIII When thou shalt be dispos'd to set me light, And place my merit in the eye of scorn, Upon thy side, against myself I'll fight, And prove thee virtuous, though thou art forsworn. With mine own weakness being best acquainted, Upon thy part I can set down a story Of faults […]
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Sonnet a Day @sonnets.bots.krohsnest.com.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026
Sonnet 056 - LVI Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not said Thy edge should blunter be than appetite, Which but to-day by feeding is allay'd, To-morrow sharpened in his former might: So, love, be thou, although to-day thou fill Thy hungry eyes, even till they wink with fulness, To-morrow see […]
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Sonnet a Day @sonnets.bots.krohsnest.com.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026
Sonnet 012 - XII When I do count the clock that tells the time, And see the brave day sunk in hideous night; When I behold the violet past prime, And sable curls, all silvered o'er with white; When lofty trees I see barren of leaves, Which erst from heat did canopy the herd, And summer's green […]
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Sonnet a Day @sonnets.bots.krohsnest.com.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026
Sonnet 012 - XII When I do count the clock that tells the time, And see the brave day sunk in hideous night; When I behold the violet past prime, And sable curls, all silvered o'er with white; When lofty trees I see barren of leaves, Which erst from heat did canopy the herd, And summer's green […]
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Sonnet a Day @sonnets.bots.krohsnest.com.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026
Sonnet 052 - LII So am I as the rich, whose blessed key, Can bring him to his sweet up-locked treasure, The which he will not every hour survey, For blunting the fine point of seldom pleasure. Therefore are feasts so solemn and so rare, Since, seldom coming in the long year set, Like stones of […]
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Sonnet a Day @sonnets.bots.krohsnest.com.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026
Sonnet 094 - XCIV They that have power to hurt, and will do none, That do not do the thing they most do show, Who, moving others, are themselves as stone, Unmoved, cold, and to temptation slow; They rightly do inherit heaven's graces, And husband nature's riches from expense; They are the lords […]
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Sonnet a Day @sonnets.bots.krohsnest.com.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026
Sonnet 063 - LXIII Against my love shall be as I am now, With Time's injurious hand crush'd and o'erworn; When hours have drain'd his blood and fill'd his brow With lines and wrinkles; when his youthful morn Hath travell'd on to age's steepy night; And all those beauties whereof now he's king […]
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Sonnet a Day @sonnets.bots.krohsnest.com.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026
Sonnet 125 - CXXV Were't aught to me I bore the canopy, With my extern the outward honouring, Or laid great bases for eternity, Which proves more short than waste or ruining? Have I not seen dwellers on form and favour Lose all and more by paying too much rent For compound sweet, forgoing simple […]
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Sonnet a Day @sonnets.bots.krohsnest.com.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026
Sonnet 073 - LXXIII That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west; Which by […]
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Sonnet a Day @sonnets.bots.krohsnest.com.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026
Sonnet 086 - LXXXVI Was it the proud full sail of his great verse, Bound for the prize of all too precious you, That did my ripe thoughts in my brain inhearse, Making their tomb the womb wherein they grew? Was it his spirit, by spirits taught to write Above a mortal pitch, that struck me dead? […]
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Sonnet a Day @sonnets.bots.krohsnest.com.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026
Sonnet 132 - CXXXII Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torments me with disdain, Have put on black and loving mourners be, Looking with pretty ruth upon my pain. And truly not the morning sun of heaven Better becomes the grey cheeks of the east, Nor that full star that […]
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Sonnet a Day @sonnets.bots.krohsnest.com.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026
Sonnet 012 - XII When I do count the clock that tells the time, And see the brave day sunk in hideous night; When I behold the violet past prime, And sable curls, all silvered o'er with white; When lofty trees I see barren of leaves, Which erst from heat did canopy the herd, And summer's green […]
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Sonnet a Day @sonnets.bots.krohsnest.com.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026
Sonnet 112 - CXII Your love and pity doth the impression fill, Which vulgar scandal stamped upon my brow; For what care I who calls me well or ill, So you o'er-green my bad, my good allow? You are my all-the-world, and I must strive To know my shames and praises from your tongue; None else to me […]
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Sonnet a Day @sonnets.bots.krohsnest.com.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026
Sonnet 126 - CXXVI O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power Dost hold Time's fickle glass, his sickle, hour; Who hast by waning grown, and therein showest Thy lovers withering, as thy sweet self growest. If Nature, sovereign mistress over wrack, As thou goest onwards still will pluck thee back […]
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Sonnet a Day @sonnets.bots.krohsnest.com.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026
Sonnet 132 - CXXXII Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torments me with disdain, Have put on black and loving mourners be, Looking with pretty ruth upon my pain. And truly not the morning sun of heaven Better becomes the grey cheeks of the east, Nor that full star that […]
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Sonnet a Day @sonnets.bots.krohsnest.com.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026
Sonnet 068 - LXVIII Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn, When beauty lived and died as flowers do now, Before these bastard signs of fair were born, Or durst inhabit on a living brow; Before the golden tresses of the dead, The right of sepulchres, were shorn away, To live a second life on […]
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Sonnet a Day @sonnets.bots.krohsnest.com.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026
Sonnet 053 - LIII What is your substance, whereof are you made, That millions of strange shadows on you tend? Since every one hath, every one, one shade, And you but one, can every shadow lend. Describe Adonis, and the counterfeit Is poorly imitated after you; On Helen's cheek all art of beauty […]
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Sonnet a Day @sonnets.bots.krohsnest.com.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026
Sonnet 019 - XIX Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws, And make the earth devour her own sweet brood; Pluck the keen teeth from the fierce tiger's jaws, And burn the long-liv'd phoenix, in her blood; Make glad and sorry seasons as thou fleet'st, And do whate'er thou wilt, swift-footed Time […]
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Sonnet a Day @sonnets.bots.krohsnest.com.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026
Sonnet 079 - LXXIX Whilst I alone did call upon thy aid, My verse alone had all thy gentle grace; But now my gracious numbers are decay'd, And my sick Muse doth give an other place. I grant, sweet love, thy lovely argument Deserves the travail of a worthier pen; Yet what of thee thy poet doth […]
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Sonnet a Day @sonnets.bots.krohsnest.com.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026
Sonnet 146 - CXLVI Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth, ( ??? ) these rebel powers that thee array, Why dost thou pine within and suffer dearth, Painting thy outward walls so costly gay? Why so large cost, having so short a lease, Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend? Shall worms […]
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Sonnet a Day @sonnets.bots.krohsnest.com.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026
Sonnet 015 - XV When I consider every thing that grows Holds in perfection but a little moment, That this huge stage presenteth nought but shows Whereon the stars in secret influence comment; When I perceive that men as plants increase, Cheered and checked even by the self-same sky, Vaunt in […]
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Sonnet a Day @sonnets.bots.krohsnest.com.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026
Sonnet 029 - XXIX When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself, and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possessed, Desiring this […]
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Sonnet a Day @sonnets.bots.krohsnest.com.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026
Sonnet 001 - I From fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beauty's rose might never die, But as the riper should by time decease, His tender heir might bear his memory: But thou contracted to thine own bright eyes, Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel, Making a […]
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Sonnet a Day @sonnets.bots.krohsnest.com.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026
Sonnet 111 - CXI O! for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in […]
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Sonnet a Day @sonnets.bots.krohsnest.com.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026
Sonnet 100 - C Where art thou Muse that thou forget'st so long, To speak of that which gives thee all thy might? Spend'st thou thy fury on some worthless song, Darkening thy power to lend base subjects light? Return forgetful Muse, and straight redeem, In gentle numbers time so idly spent; Sing […]
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Sonnet a Day @sonnets.bots.krohsnest.com.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026
Sonnet 103 - CIII Alack! what poverty my Muse brings forth, That having such a scope to show her pride, The argument all bare is of more worth Than when it hath my added praise beside! O! blame me not, if I no more can write! Look in your glass, and there appears a face That over-goes my blunt […]
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Sonnet a Day @sonnets.bots.krohsnest.com.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026
Sonnet 006 - VI Then let not winter's ragged hand deface, In thee thy summer, ere thou be distilled: Make sweet some vial; treasure thou some place With beauty's treasure ere it be self-killed. That use is not forbidden usury, Which happies those that pay the willing loan; That's for thy self to […]
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Sonnet a Day @sonnets.bots.krohsnest.com.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026
Sonnet 153 - CLIII Cupid laid by his brand and fell asleep: A maid of Dian's this advantage found, And his love-kindling fire did quickly steep In a cold valley-fountain of that ground; Which borrowed from this holy fire of Love, A dateless lively heat, still to endure, And grew a seething bath […]
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Sonnet a Day @sonnets.bots.krohsnest.com.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026
Sonnet 115 - CXV Those lines that I before have writ do lie, Even those that said I could not love you dearer: Yet then my judgment knew no reason why My most full flame should afterwards burn clearer. But reckoning Time, whose million'd accidents Creep in 'twixt vows, and change decrees of […]
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Sonnet a Day @sonnets.bots.krohsnest.com.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026
Sonnet 022 - XXII My glass shall not persuade me I am old, So long as youth and thou are of one date; But when in thee time's furrows I behold, Then look I death my days should expiate. For all that beauty that doth cover thee, Is but the seemly raiment of my heart, Which in thy breast doth live […]
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Sonnet a Day @sonnets.bots.krohsnest.com.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026
Sonnet 126 - CXXVI O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power Dost hold Time's fickle glass, his sickle, hour; Who hast by waning grown, and therein showest Thy lovers withering, as thy sweet self growest. If Nature, sovereign mistress over wrack, As thou goest onwards still will pluck thee back […]
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Sonnet a Day @sonnets.bots.krohsnest.com.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026
Sonnet 025 - XXV Let those who are in favour with their stars Of public honour and proud titles boast, Whilst I, whom fortune of such triumph bars Unlook'd for joy in that I honour most. Great princes' favourites their fair leaves spread But as the marigold at the sun's eye, And in themselves […]
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Sonnet a Day @sonnets.bots.krohsnest.com.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026
Sonnet 032 - XXXII If thou survive my well-contented day, When that churl Death my bones with dust shall cover And shalt by fortune once more re-survey These poor rude lines of thy deceased lover, Compare them with the bett'ring of the time, And though they be outstripped by every pen, Reserve […]
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Sonnet a Day @sonnets.bots.krohsnest.com.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026
Sonnet 090 - XC Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now; Now, while the world is bent my deeds to cross, Join with the spite of fortune, make me bow, And do not drop in for an after-loss: Ah! do not, when my heart hath 'scaped this sorrow, Come in the rearward of a conquered woe; Give not a […]
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