Available Poems in Sonnets (by William Shakespeare )

[Complete]

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• no. 1. From fairest creatures we desire increase  (Michael G. Cunningham, Dennis M. Farrell, A. Oscar Haügland, Mamie Grace Leonard, Stig Gustav Schönberg, Richard Simpson, David Winkler) FRE FRE GER ITA
• no. 2. When forty winters shall besiege thy brow  (Michael G. Cunningham, David Llewellyn Green, Edward James Harper, Richard Simpson, Gloria Swisher, David Winkler) FRE FRE ITA
• no. 3. Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest  (Michael G. Cunningham, James Mavin Parker, Richard Simpson, David Winkler) FRE FRE ITA
• no. 4. Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend  (Michael G. Cunningham, Thomas A. Hyde, Richard Simpson, David Winkler) FRE FRE ITA
• no. 5. Those hours, that with gentle work did frame  (Dorothea Austin, Stephan Baekers, Michael G. Cunningham, David Loeb, Richard Simpson, David Winkler) FRE FRE ITA
• no. 6. Then let not winter's ragged hand deface  (Michael G. Cunningham, Richard Simpson, David Winkler) FRE FRE ITA
• no. 7. Lo! in the orient when the gracious light  (Malcolm Cameron Peyton, Richard Simpson, David Winkler) FRE FRE ITA RUS
• no. 8. Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?  ([more than ten composers]) FIN FRE FRE HUN ITA RUS
• no. 9. Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye  (Juriaan Andriessen, Stefan Lienenkämper, Richard Simpson, David Winkler) FRE FRE ITA
• no. 10. For shame! deny that thou bear'st love to any  (David Leo Diamond, Richard Simpson, David Winkler) FRE FRE ITA
• no. 11. As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou grow'st  (Theo Loevendie, Richard Simpson) FRE FRE ITA
• no. 12. When I do count the clock that tells the time  (David Llewellyn Green, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Richard Simpson, David Winkler) FRE FRE ITA RUS
• no. 13. O, that you were yourself! but, love, you are  (Richard Simpson) FRE FRE ITA RUS
• no. 14. Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck  (Richard Simpson, Harri Vuori, David Winkler) FRE FRE ITA
• no. 15. When I consider every thing that grows  (Rose Brandel, John Buller, Richard Simpson, Robert B. Whitcomb, David Winkler) FRE FRE ITA
• no. 16. But wherefore do not you a mightier way  (Richard Simpson) FRE FRE ITA
• no. 17. Who will believe my verse in time to come  (Ralph R. Guenther, Richard Simpson) FRE FRE ITA
• no. 18. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?  ([more than ten composers]) DUT FIN FRE FRE ITA RUS
• no. 19. Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws  (Gary Bachlund, Miriam Gideon, Richard Simpson, Flavio Testi) FRE FRE ITA RUS
• no. 20. A woman's face with nature's own hand painted  (Wolfgang Fortner, Richard Simpson) FRE FRE ITA
• no. 21. So is it not with me as with that Muse  (Richard Simpson, Adolf Wallnöfer) FRE GER ITA
• no. 22. My glass shall not persuade me I am old  (Benjamin Burrows, Leslie Crabtree, Wolfgang Fortner, Gerard van Hulst, Richard Simpson, David Winkler) FRE ITA
• no. 23. As an unperfect actor on the stage  (John Philip William Dankworth, Richard Simpson) FRE ITA
• no. 24. Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath steel'd  (John Philip William Dankworth, Gerard van Hulst, Richard Simpson) FRE ITA
• no. 25. Let those who are in favour with their stars  (Juriaan Andriessen, Leslie Kondorossy, Richard Simpson) FRE ITA RUS
• no. 26. Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage  (Richard Simpson) FRE ITA
• no. 27. Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed  (John Buller, Benjamin Burrows, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Johan Franco, Juliana Hall, Richard Simpson, Claudio Spies, Montrose Thompson, Harri Vuori) FRE ITA RUS
• no. 28. How can I then return in happy plight  (Michael G. Cunningham, Richard Simpson, Claudio Spies) FRE ITA
• no. 29. When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes  (Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Leslie Crabtree, David Leo Diamond, John Woods Duke, Alan Hovhaness, Noël Lee, Alan Leichtling, Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Sir, Richard Simpson) DUT FRE ITA
• no. 30. When to the sessions of sweet silent thought  (Gary Bachlund, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Leslie Crabtree, David Leo Diamond, Juliana Hall, Alan Hovhaness, Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Sir, Richard Simpson) FRE ITA RUS
• no. 31. Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts  (Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Enid Luff, Richard Simpson) FRE ITA
• no. 32. If thou survive my well-contented day  (Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Sir, Richard Simpson) FRE ITA
• no. 33. Full many a glorious morning have I seen  (Dorothea Austin, Leslie Crabtree, Miriam Gideon, Richard Simpson) FRE ITA
• no. 34. Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day  (Juliana Hall, Richard Simpson) FRE ITA
• no. 35. No more be griev'd at that which thou hast done  (Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Stefan Lienenkämper, Richard Simpson) FRE ITA
• no. 36. Let me confess that we two must be twain  (David Leo Diamond, Björn Johansson, Eustace O'Connor, Richard Simpson) FRE ITA
• no. 37. As a decrepit father takes delight  (Richard Simpson) FRE ITA
• no. 38. How can my muse want subject to invent  (Richard Simpson) FRE ITA
• no. 39. O, how thy worth with manners may I sing  (Janine Mehrtens, Richard Simpson) FRE ITA
• no. 40. Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all  (Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Leslie Crabtree, Richard Simpson, Rudi Spring) FRE ITA
• no. 41. Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits  (David Leo Diamond, Richard Simpson) FRE ITA
• no. 42. That thou hast her it is not all my grief  (Hans-Jürgen von Bose, Richard Simpson) FRE ITA
• no. 43. When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see  (Edward Applebaum, David Bowerman, Frank Bridge, Benjamin Britten, Lex van Delden, Richard Simpson, Claudio Spies) CAT FRE FRE ITA
• no. 44. If the dull substance of my flesh were thought  (Leslie Crabtree, Lex van Delden, Richard Simpson) FRE ITA
• no. 45. The other two, slight air, and purging fire  (Leslie Crabtree, Richard Simpson) FRE ITA
• no. 46. Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war  (Richard Simpson, Joel Weiss) FRE ITA
• no. 47. Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took  (Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Lex van Delden, Richard Simpson) FRE ITA
• no. 48. How careful was I when I took my way  (Richard Simpson) FRE ITA
• no. 49. Against that time, if ever that time come  (Richard Simpson, Templeton Strong) FRE ITA
• no. 50. How heavy do I journey on the way  (Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 51. Thus can my love excuse the slow offence  (Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 52. So am I as the rich, whose blessed key  (Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 53. What is your substance, whereof are you made  (Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 54. O! how much more doth beauty beauteous seem  (Richard Bruce Faith, Frederick Lygon, Richard Simpson) FRE ITA
• no. 55. Not marble, nor the gilded monuments  (Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 56. Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not said  (Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 57. Being your slave what should I do but tend  (Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Richard Simpson, Joel Weiss) FRE
• no. 58. That god forbid, that made me first your slave  (Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 59. If there be nothing new, but that which is  (Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 60. Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore  (J. Carlowitz Ames, Alan Dudley Bush, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, William Edmondstoune Duncan, Stefan Lienenkämper, Richard Simpson) FRE ITA POL
• no. 61. Is it thy will thy image should keep open  (John Buller, Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 62. Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye  (Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 63. Against my love shall be as I am now  (Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 64. When I have seen by Time's fell hand defac'd  (Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Ned Rorem, Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 65. Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea  (Walter Aschaffenburg, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Juliana Hall, Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 66. Tired with all these, for restful death I cry  (Gary Bachlund, Hanns Eisler, Richard Simpson, Harri Vuori) CZE FRE ITA POL RUS RUS
• no. 67. Ah! wherefore with infection should he live  (Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 68. Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn  (Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 69. Those parts of thee that the world's eye doth view  (Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 70. That thou art blam'd shall not be thy defect  (Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 71. No longer mourn for me when I am dead  (Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Leslie Crabtree, David Leo Diamond, Miriam Gideon, Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Sir, Richard Simpson) FRE ITA RUS
• no. 72. O! lest the world should task you to recite  (Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 73. That time of year thou mayst in me behold  ([more than ten composers]) DUT FRE FRI ITA RUS
• no. 74. But be contented: when that fell arrest  (Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 75. So are you to my thoughts as food to life  (Jean Coulthard, Richard Simpson, Adolf Wallnöfer) FRE GER ITA
• no. 76. Why is my verse so barren of new pride  (Daniel Ruyneman, Richard Simpson, Adolf Wallnöfer) FRE ITA RUS
• no. 77. Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear  (Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 78. So oft have I invoked thee for my Muse  (Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 79. Whilst I alone did call upon thy aid  (Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 80. O! how I faint when I of you do write  (Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 81. Or I shall live your epitaph to make  (Elena Olegovna Firsova, Richard Simpson) FRE ITA RUS RUS
• no. 82. I grant thou wert not married to my Muse  (Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 83. I never saw that you did painting need  (Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 84. Who is it that says most, which can say more  (Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 85. My tongue-tied Muse in manners holds her still  (Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 86. Was it the proud full sail of his great verse  (Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 87. Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing  (Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Leslie Crabtree, Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Sir, Richard Simpson) FRE ITA
• no. 88. When thou shalt be dispos'd to set me light  (Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 89. Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault  (Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 90. Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now  (Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Richard Simpson) FRE RUS
• no. 91. Some glory in their birth, some in their skill  (Wolfgang Fortner, Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 92. But do thy worst to steal thyself away  (Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 93. So shall I live, supposing thou art true  (Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 94. They that have power to hurt, and will do none  (James Henry Baseden Butt, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Richard Simpson, Adolf Wallnöfer) FRE GER
• no. 95. How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame  (Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 96. Some say thy fault is youth, some wantonness  (Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 97. How like a winter hath my absence been  (Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Richard Simpson, Ludmilla Ulehla, Elizabeth Walton Vercoe) FRE ITA
• no. 98. From you have I been absent in the spring  (Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Enid Luff, Kirke Mechem, Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 99. The forward violet thus did I chide  (Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 100. Where art thou Muse that thou forget'st so long  (Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 101. O truant Muse what shall be thy amends  (Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 102. My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming  (Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Edward James Harper, Richard Simpson) FRE ITA RUS
• no. 103. Alack! what poverty my Muse brings forth  (Richard Simpson) FRE ITA
• no. 104. To me, fair friend, you never can be old  (Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Leslie Crabtree, Richard Simpson, Claudio Spies) FRE ITA
• no. 105. Let not my love be call'd idolatry  (Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 106. When in the chronicle of wasted time  (Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 107. Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul  (Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 108. What's in the brain, that ink may character  (Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 109. O! never say that I was false of heart  (Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Sir, Richard Simpson, Ludmilla Ulehla) FRE
• no. 110. Alas! 'tis true, I have gone here and there  (Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 111. O! for my sake do you with Fortune chide  (Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 112. Your love and pity doth the impression fill  (Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 113. Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind  (Scott Gendel, Piet Ketting, Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 114. Or whether doth my mind, being crown'd with you  (Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 115. Those lines that I before have writ do lie  (Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 116. Let me not to the marriage of true minds  ([more than ten composers]) FRE GER GER ITA
• no. 117. Accuse me thus: that I have scanted all  (Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 118. Like as, to make our appetite more keen  (Richard Simpson, Rudi Spring) FRE
• no. 119. What potions have I drunk of Siren tears  (David Llewellyn Green, Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 120. That you were once unkind befriends me now  (David Llewellyn Green, Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 121. 'Tis better to be vile than vile esteem'd  (Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 122. Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain  (Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 123. No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change  (Miriam Gideon, Richard Simpson) FRE ITA
• no. 124. If my dear love were but the child of state  (Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 125. Were't aught to me I bore the canopy  (Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 126. O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power  (Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 127. In the old age black was not counted fair  (Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 128. How oft when thou, my music, music play'st  (Juriaan Andriessen, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Lee Hoiby, David Passmore, Richard Simpson, David Evan Thomas) FRE ITA
• no. 129. The expense of spirit in a waste of shame  (Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, David Passmore, Richard Simpson) CZE FRE
• no. 130. My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun  (Paavo Heininen, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, David Passmore, Richard Simpson) FRE ITA
• no. 131. Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art  (Juriaan Andriessen, Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 132. Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me  (David Passmore, Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 133. Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan  (Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 134. So, now I have confess'd that he is thine  (Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 135. Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy 'Will,'  (Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 136. If thy soul check thee that I come so near  (Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 137. Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes  (Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 138. When my love swears that she is made of truth  (Wallingford Riegger, Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 139. O! call not me to justify the wrong  (Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 140. Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press  (Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 141. In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes  (David Passmore, Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 142. Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate  (Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 143. Lo, as a careful housewife runs to catch  (Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 144. Two loves I have of comfort and despair  (Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 145. Those lips that Love's own hand did make  (Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 146. Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth  (Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 147. My love is as a fever, longing still  (David Leo Diamond, Noël Lee, Richard Simpson) DUT FRE ITA
• no. 148. O me! what eyes hath Love put in my head  (David Passmore, Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 149. Canst thou, O cruel! say I love thee not  (Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 150. O from what power hast thou this powerful might  (David Leo Diamond, Vittorio Giannini, Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 151. Love is too young to know what conscience is  (Vittorio Giannini, Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 152. In loving thee thou know'st I am forsworn  (Richard Simpson) FRE
• no. 153. Cupid laid by his brand, and fell asleep  (David Passmore, Richard Simpson) FRE RUS
• no. 154. The little Love-god lying once asleep  (Juriaan Andriessen, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Piet Ketting, Richard Simpson) FRE POL