Tag: Sonnets

  • June 1

    June 1

    Now counting best to be with you alone,
    Then better’d that the world may see my pleasure

  • May 30

    May 30

    For well thou know’st to my dear doting heart
    Thou art the fairest and most precious jewel.

  • May 11

    May 11

    And there reigns love and all love’s loving parts…
    Their images I loved I view in thee,
    And thou, all they, hast all the all of me.

  • May 3

    May 3

    Nor did I wonder at the lily’s white,
    Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose;
    They were but sweet, but figures of delight,
    Drawn after you, you pattern of all those.

  • April 28

    April 28

    Love’s fire heats water, water cools not love.

  • April 17

    April 17

    …I love thee in such sort
    As, thou being mine, mine is thy good report.

  • April 10

    April 10

    My love is strengthen’d, though more weak in seeming;
    I love not less, though less the show appear:
    That love is merchandized whose rich esteeming
    The owner’s tongue doth publish every where.