Sonnets - DjVu

1 Sonnets by WILLIAM shakespeare 1609 DjVu Editions E-books 2001, Global Language Resources, : SonnetsTable of : From fairest creatures we desire : When fortie Winters shall beseige thy : Looke in thy glasse and tell the face thou : Vnthrifty louelinesse why dost thou : Those howers that with gentle worke did : Then let not winters wragged hand : Loe in the Orient when the gracious : Musick to heare, why hear st thou musick : Is it for feare to wet a widdowes : For shame deny that thou bear st loue to : As fast as thou shalt wane so fast thou grow : When I doe count the clock that tels the : O that you were your selfe, but loue you : Not from the stars do I my iudgement : When I consider euery thing that : But wherefore do not you a mightier : Who will beleeue my verse in time to : Shall I compare thee to a Summers day?

2 2119: Deuouring time blunt thou the Lyons : A womans face with natures owne hand : So is it not with me as with that : My glasse shall not perswade me I am : As an vnperfect actor on the : Mine eye hath play d the painter and hath : Let those who are in fauor with their : Lord of my loue, to whome in : Weary with toyle, I hast me to my : How can I then returne in happy : When in disgrace with Fortune and mens : When to the Sessions of sweet silent : Thy bosome is indeared with all : If thou suruiue my well contented : Full many a glorious morning haue I : Why didst thou promise such a beautious : No more bee greeu d at that which thou hast : Let me confesse that we two must be : As a decrepit father takes : How can my Muse want subiect to : Oh how thy worth with manners may I : Take all my loues, my loue, yea take them : Those pretty wrongs that liberty : That thou hast her is not all my : When most I winke then doe mine eyes best see- i : If the dull substance of my flesh were : The other two, slight ayre, and purging : Mine eye and heart are at a mortall : Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is : How carefull was I when I tooke my : Against that time (if euer that time come).

3 5250: How heauie doe I iourney on the : Thus can my loue excuse the slow : So am I as the rich whose blessed : What is your substance, whereof are you : Oh how much more doth beautie beautious : Not marble, nor the guilded : Sweet loue renew thy force, be it not : Being your slaue what should I doe but : That God forbid, that made me first your : If their bee nothing new, but that which : Like as the waues make towards the pibled : Is it thy wil, thy Image should keepe : Sinne of selfe-loue possesseth al mine : Against my loue shall be as I am : When I haue seene by times fell hand : Since brasse, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundlesse : Tyr d with all these for restfull death I : Ah wherefore with infection should he : Thus is his cheeke the map of daies : Those parts of thee that the worlds eye doth : That thou are blam d shall not be thy : Noe longer mourne for me when I am : O least the world should taske you to : That time of yeare thou maist in me : But be contented when that fell : So are you to my thoughts as food to : Why is my verse so barren of new pride?

4 7977: Thy glasse will shew thee how thy beauties : So oft haue I inuok d thee for my : Whilst I alone did call vpon thy : O how I faint when I of you do : Or I shall liue your Epitaph to : I grant thou wert not married to my : I neuer saw that you did painting : Who is it that sayes most, which can say : My toung-tide Muse in manners holds her : Was it the proud full saile of his great : Farewell thou art too deare for my : When thou shalt be disposde to set me : Say that thou didst forsake mee for some falt- ii : Then hate me when thou wilt, if euer, : Some glory in their birth, some in their : But doe thy worst to steale thy selfe : So shall I liue, supposing thou art : They that haue powre to hurt, and will doe : How sweet and louely dost thou make the : Some say thy fault is youth, some : How like a Winter hath my absence : From you haue I beene absent in the : The forward violet thus did I : Where art thou Muse that thou forgetst so : Oh truant Muse what shalbe thy : That loue is marchandiz d, whose ritch : Alack what pouerty my Muse brings : To me faire friend you neuer can be : Let not my loue be cal d : When in the Chronicle of wasted : Not mine owne feares, nor the prophetick : What s in the braine that Inck may : O neuer say that I was false of.

5 Alas tis true, I haue gone here and : O for my sake doe you with fortune : Your loue and pittie doth th impression : Since I left you, mine eye is in my : Drinke vp the monarks plague this flattery?..117115: Those lines that I before haue writ doe : Let me not to the marriage of true : Accuse me thus, that I haue scanted : Like as to make our appetites more : What potions haue I drunke of Syren : That you were once vnkind be-friends mee : Tis better to be vile then vile : Thy guift, thy tables, are within my : No Time, thou shalt not bost that I doe : Yf my deare loue were but the childe of : Wer t ought to me I bore the : O thou my louely Boy who in thy : In the ould age blacke was not counted : How oft when thou my musike musike : Th expence of Spirit in a waste of : My Mistres eyes are nothing like the.

6 Thou art as tiranous, so as thou : Thine eies I loue, and they as pittying : Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to : So now I haue confest that he is : Who euer hath her wish, thou hast thy Will- iii : If thy soule check thee that I come so : Thou blinde foole loue, what doost thou to mine : When my loue sweares that she is made of : O call not me to iustifie the : Be wise as thou art cruell, do not : In faith I doe not loue thee with mine : Loue is my sinne, and thy deare vertue : Loe as a carefull huswife runnes to : Two loues I haue of comfort and : Those lips that Loues owne hand did : Poore soule the center of my sinfull : My loue is as a feauer longing : O me what eyes hath loue put in my : Canst thou O cruell, say I loue thee : With insufficiency my heart to : Loue is too young to know what conscience : In louing thee thou know st I am : Cupid laid by his brand and fell a : The little Loue-God lying once a sleepe- iv - - 1 - shakespeare : SonnetsTO THE ONLIE BEGETTER OF THESE INSVING Sonnets Mr.

7 ALL HAPPINESSE AND THAT ETERNITIE PROMISED BY OVR EVER-LIVING POET WISHETH THE WELL-WISHING ADVENTVRER IN SETTING FORTH. SHAKE-SPEARES, Sonnets . - 2 - shakespeare : Sonnets1: From fairest creatures we desire increaseFrom fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beauties Rose might neuer die, But as the riper should by time decease, His tender heire might beare his memory: But thou contracted to thine owne bright eyes, Feed st thy lights flame with selfe substantiall fewell, Making a famine where aboundance lies, Thy selfe thy foe, to thy sweet selfe too cruell: Thou that art now the worlds fresh ornament, And only herauld to the gaudy spring, Within thine owne bud buriest thy content, And tender chorle makst wast in niggarding.

8 Pitty the world, or else this glutton be, To eate the worlds due, by the graue and thee. - 3 -1: From fairest creatures we desire increaseShakespeare: Sonnets2: When fortie Winters shall beseige thy browWhen fortie Winters shall beseige thy brow, And digge deep trenches in thy beauties field, Thy youthes proud liuery so gaz d on now, Wil be a totter d weed of smal worth held: Then being askt, where all thy beautie lies, Where all the treasure of thy lusty daies; To say within thine owne deepe sunken eyes, Were an all-eating shame, and thriftlesse praise. How much more praise deseru d thy beauties vse, If thou couldst answere this faire child of mine Shall sum my count, and make my old excuse Proouing his beautie by succession thine.

9 This were to be new made when thou art ould, And see thy blood warme when thou feel st it could. - 4 -2: When fortie Winters shall beseige thy browShakespeare: Sonnets3: Looke in thy glasse and tell the face thou vewestLooke in thy glasse and tell the face thou vewest, Now is the time that face should forme an other, Whose fresh repaire if now thou not renewest, Thou doo st beguile the world, vnblesse some mother. For where is she so faire whose vn-eard wombe Disdaines the tillage of thy husbandry? Or who is he so fond will be the tombe, Of his selfe loue to stop posterity? Thou art thy mothers glasse and she in thee Calls backe the louely Aprill of her prime, So thou through windowes of thine age shalt see, Dispight of wrinkles this thy goulden time.

10 But if thou liue remembred not to be, Die single and thine Image dies with thee. - 5 -3: Looke in thy glasse and tell the face thou vewestShakespeare: Sonnets4: Vnthrifty louelinesse why dost thou spendVnthrifty louelinesse why dost thou spend, Vpon thy selfe thy beauties legacy? Natures bequest giues nothing but doth lend, And being franck she lends to those are free: Then beautious nigard why doost thou abuse, The bountious largesse giuen thee to giue? Profitles vserer why doost thou vse So great a summe of summes yet can st not liue? For hauing traffike with thy selfe alone, Thou of thy selfe thy sweet selfe dost deceaue, Then how when nature calls thee to be gone, What acceptable Audit can st thou leaue?