INDEX OF SONNET FIRST LINES

A woman’s face with Nature’s own hand painted 20

Accuse me thus: that I have scanted all 117

Against my love shall be, as I am now 63

Against that time, if ever that time come 49

Ah, wherefore with infection should he live 67

Alack, what poverty my Muse brings forth 103

Alas, ’tis true, I have gone here and there 110

As a decrepit father takes delight 37

As an unperfect actor on the stage 23

As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou grow’st 11

Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press 140

Being your slave, what should I do but tend 57

Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan 133

Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took 47

But be contented when that fell arrest 74

But do thy worst to steal thyself away 92

But wherefore do not you a mightier way 16

Canst thou, O cruel, say I love thee not 149

Cupid laid by his brand and fell asleep 153

Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion’s paws 19

Farewell! Thou art too dear for my possessing 87

For shame, deny that thou bear’st love to any 10

From fairest creatures we desire increase 1

From you have I been absent in the spring 98

Full many a glorious morning have I seen 33

How can I then return in happy plight 28

How can my Muse want subject to invent 38

How careful was I, when I took my way 48

How heavy do I journey on the way 50

How like a winter hath my absence been 97

How oft, when thou, my music, music play’st 128

How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame 95

I grant thou wert not married to my Muse 82

I never saw that you did painting need 83

If my dear love were but the child of state 124

If the dull substance of my flesh were thought 44

If there be nothing new, but that which is 59

If thou survive my well-contented day 32

If thy soul check thee that I come so near 136

In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes 141

In loving thee thou know’st I am forsworn 152

In the old age black was not counted fair 127

Is it for fear to wet a widow’s eye 9

Is it thy will thy image should keep open 61

Let me confess that we two must be twain 36

Let me not to the marriage of true minds 116

Let not my love be called idolatry 105

Let those who are in favor with their stars 25

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore 60

Like as to make our appetites more keen 118

Lo, as a careful huswife runs to catch 143

Lo, in the orient when the gracious light 7

Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest 3

Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage 26

Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate 142

Love is too young to know what conscience is 151

Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war 46

Mine eye hath played the painter and hath stelled 24

Music to hear, why hear’st thou music sadly 8

My glass shall not persuade me I am old 22

My love is as a fever, longing still 147

My love is strengthened, though more weak in seeming 102

My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun 130

My tongue-tied Muse in manners holds her still 85

No longer mourn for me when I am dead 71

No more be grieved at that which thou hast done 35

No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change 123

Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck 14

Not marble nor the gilded monuments 55

Not mine own fears nor the prophetic soul 107

O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power 126

O truant Muse, what shall be thy amends 101

Oh, call not me to justify the wrong 139

Oh, for my sake do you with Fortune chide 111

Oh, from what power hast thou this powerful might 150

Oh, how I faint when I of you do write 80

Oh, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem 54

Oh, how thy worth with manners may I sing 39

Oh, lest the world should task you to recite 72

Oh, me, what eyes hath love put in my head 148

Oh, never say that I was false of heart 109

Oh, that you were yourself! But, love, you are 13

Or I shall live your epitaph to make 81

Or whether doth my mind, being crowned with you 114

Poor soul, the center of my sinful earth 146

Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault 89

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day 18

Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye 62

Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea 65

Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind 113

So am I as the rich whose blessèd key 52

So are you to my thoughts as food to life 75

So is it not with me as with that muse 21

So, now I have confessed that he is thine 134

So oft have I invoked thee for my Muse 78

So shall I live, supposing thou art true 93

Some glory in their birth, some in their skill 91

Some say thy fault is youth, some wantonness 96

Sweet love, renew thy force! Be it not said 56

Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all 40

That god forbid that made me first your slave 58

That thou are blamed shall not be thy defect 70

That thou hast her, it is not all my grief 42

That time of year thou mayst in me behold 73

That you were once unkind befriends me now 120

Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame 129

The forward violet thus did I chide 99

The little love god lying once asleep 154

The other two, slight air and purging fire 45

Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now 90

Then let not winter’s ragged hand deface 6

They that have power to hurt and will do none 94

Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me 132

Those hours, that with gentle work did frame 5

Those lines that I before have writ do lie 115

Those lips that Love’s own hand did make 145

Those parts of thee that the world’s eye doth view 69

Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits 41

Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art 131

Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes 137

Thus can my love excuse the slow offense 51

Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn 68

Thy bosom is endearèd with all hearts 31

Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain 122

Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear 77

Tired with all these, for restful death I cry 66

’Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed 121

To me, fair friend, you never can be old 104

Two loves I have, of comfort and despair 144

Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend 4

Was it the proud full sail of his great verse 86

Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed 27

Were’t aught to me I bore the canopy 125

What is your substance, whereof are you made 53

What potions have I drunk of siren tears 119

What’s in the brain that ink may character 108

When forty winters shall besiege thy brow 2

When I consider every thing that grows 15

When I do count the clock that tells the time 12

When I have seen by Time’s fell hand defaced 64

When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes 29

When in the chronicle of wasted time 106

When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see 43

When my love swears that she is made of truth 138

When thou shalt be disposed to set me light 88

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought 30

Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget’st so long 100

Whilst I alone did call upon thy aid 79

Who is it that says most which can say more 84

Who will believe my verse in time to come 17

Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy Will 135

Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day 34

Why is my verse so barren of new pride 76

Your love and pity doth th’impression fill 112