Elements

Earth, Air, Fire, Water

Q19 Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws,

Q21 So is it not with me as with that Muse,

Q29 When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes,

Q44 If the dull substance of my flesh were thought,
Q45 The other, two slight air and purging fire,

Q55 Not marble, nor the gilded monuments

Q65 Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,

Q70 That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect,

Q73 That time of year thou mayst in me behold,
Q74 But be contented when that fell arrest

Q81 Or I shall live your epitaph to make,

Q109 O never say that I was false of heart,

Q135 Whoever hath her wish thou hast thy will,

Q144 Two loves I have, of comfort and despair,

Q146 Poor soul, the center of my sinful earth,

Q153 Cupid laid by his side his heart inflaming brand

Q154 The little love-god lying once asleep



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