First Lines of Sonnets I to L

Sonnet I - From fairest creatures we desire increase,

Sonnet II - When forty winters shall besiege thy brow,

Sonnet III - Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest

Sonnet IV - Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend

Sonnet V - Those hours, that with gentle work did frame

Sonnet VI - Then let not winter's ragged hand deface,

Sonnet VII - Lo! in the orient when the gracious light

Sonnet VIII - Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?

Sonnet IX - Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye,

Sonnet X - For shame deny that thou bear'st love to any,

Sonnet XI - As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou grow'st

Sonnet XII - When I do count the clock that tells the time,

Sonnet XIII - O! that you were your self; but, love, you are

Sonnet XIV - Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck;

Sonnet XV - When I consider every thing that grows

Sonnet XVI - But wherefore do not you a mightier way

Sonnet XVII - Who will believe my verse in time to come,

Sonnet XVIII - Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Sonnet XIX - Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws,

Sonnet XX - A woman's face with nature's own hand painted,

Sonnet XXI - So is it not with me as with that Muse,

Sonnet XXII - My glass shall not persuade me I am old,

Sonnet XXIII - As an unperfect actor on the stage,

Sonnet XXIV - Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath steel'd,

Sonnet XXV - Let those who are in favour with their stars

Sonnet XXVI - Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage

Sonnet XXVII - Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed,

Sonnet XXVIII - How can I then return in happy plight,

Sonnet XXIX - When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes

Sonnet XXX - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought

Sonnet XXXI - Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts,

Sonnet XXXII - If thou survive my well-contented day,

Sonnet XXXIII - Full many a glorious morning have I seen

Sonnet XXXIV - Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day,

Sonnet XXXV - No more be grieved at that which thou hast done:

Sonnet XXXVI - Let me confess that we two must be twain,

Sonnet XXXVII - As a decrepit father takes delight

Sonnet XXXVIII - How can my muse want subject to invent,

Sonnet XXXIX - O! how thy worth with manners may I sing,

Sonnet XL - Take all my loves, my love, yea take them all;

Sonnet XLI - Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits,

Sonnet XLII - That thou hast her it is not all my grief,

Sonnet XLIII - When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see,

Sonnet XLIV - If the dull substance of my flesh were thought,

Sonnet XLV - The other two, slight air, and purging fire

Sonnet XLVI - Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war,

Sonnet XLVII - Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took,

Sonnet XLVIII - How careful was I when I took my way,

Sonnet XLIX - Against that time, if ever that time come,

Sonnet L - How heavy do I journey on the way,