Beauty

What poet can resist it?



Q1 From fairest creatures we desire increase,

Q2 When forty winters shall besiege thy brow,

Q3 Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest

Q4 Unthrifty loveliness why dost thou abuse

Q5 Those hours that with gentle work did frame
Q6 Then let not winter's ragged hand deface

Q7 Lo,in the orient when the gracious light

Q8 Music to hear, why hearst thou music sadly?

Q9 Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye,
Q10 For shame deny that thou bear'st love to any

Q11 As fast as thou shalt wane so fast thou grow'st,

Q13 O that you were yourself,but love you are

Q17 Who will believe my verse in time to come

Q18 Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Q22 My glass shall not persuade me I am old,

Q27 Weary with toil I haste me to my bed,
Q30 When to the sessions of sweet silent thought,

Q35 No more be grieved at that which thou hast done,

Q52 So am I as the rich whose blessed key,

Q53 What is your substance, whereof are you made,

Q54 O how much more doth beauty beauteous seem,

Q67 Ah wherefore with infection should he live,
Q68 Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn,
Q69 Those parts of thee that the world's eye doth view,

Q70 That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect,


Q83 I never saw that you did painting need,
Q84 Who is it that says most, which can say more,
Q95 How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame,

Q97 How like a winter hath my absence been
Q98 From you have I been absent in the spring,
Q99 The forward violet thus did I chide:

Q106 When in the chronicle of wasted time

End of the Fair Young Man (FYM) sonnets.

Start of the Dark Lady (DL) Sonnets.

Q127 In the old age black was not counted fair,
Q130 My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun,


An Ordering of the Sonnets?
Verse Time Muse Love Beauty
Immortal THEMES Element
Hate Eyes Sex Music Affair
The Characters in the Sonnets?
The Plot - Is there one?
Some Respected opinions