Tag: Sonnets

  • 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.

  • March 25

    March 25

    Till whatsoever star that guides my moving
    Points on me graciously with fair aspect
    And puts apparel on my tatter’d loving,
    To show me worthy of thy sweet respect:
    Then may I dare to boast how I do love thee.