Sonnet

The Sonnet
By William Shakespeare

The Sonnets is a collection of William Shakespeare’s most well known and appreciated sonnets of English literature. Among the 154 sonnet, few of them are widely-read poems in all of English literature such as Sonnet 18: – Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? 

Here you will get the sonnets of William Shakespeare with explanations.

Sonnet 01: - From fairest creatures we desire increase

Sonnet 02: - When forty winters shall beseige thy brow

Sonnet 03: - Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest

Sonnet 04: - Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend

Sonnet 05: - Those hours, that with gentle work did frame

Sonnet 06: - Then let not winter's ragged hand deface

Sonnet 07: - Lo! in the orient when the gracious light

Sonnet 08: - Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?

Sonnet 09: - 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,

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