Shakespeare composed 154 sonnets which are divided into three groups:
- Sonnets to a Young Man Urging Marriage – 1-27
- Sonnets to a Young Man, Various Themes 28-127
- Sonnets to the “Dark Lady” – 128-154
Scholars believe that many of Shakespeare’s Sonnets are autobiographical.
Sonnets to the “Dark Lady” – 128-154
- How oft, when thou, my music, music play’st
- The expense of spirit in a waste of shame
- My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun
- Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art
- Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me
- Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan
- So, now I have confess’d that he is thine
- Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy ‘Will’
- If thy soul cheque thee that I come so near
- Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes
- When my love swears that she is made of truth
- O, call not me to justify the wrong
- Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press
- In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes,
- Love is my sin and thy dear virtue hate,
- Lo! as a careful housewife runs to catch
- Two loves I have of comfort and despair,
- Those lips that Love’s own hand did make
- Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth,
- My love is as a fever, longing still
- O me, what eyes hath Love put in my head,
- Canst thou, O cruel! say I love thee not,
- O, from what power hast thou this powerful might
- Love is too young to know what conscience is;
- In loving thee thou know’st I am forsworn,
- Cupid laid by his brand, and fell asleep:
- The little Love-god lying once asleep
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