[ { "title": "Sonnet 13", "author": "John Milton", "lines": [ "XIII", "", "To Mr. H. Lawes, on his Aires.", "", "Harry whose tuneful and well measur'd Song", "First taught our English Musick how to span", "Words with just note and accent, not to scan", "With Midas Ears, committing short and long;", "Thy worth and skill exempts thee from the throng,", "With praise enough for Envy to look wan;", "To after age thou shalt be writ the man,", "That with smooth aire couldst humor best our tongue", "Thou honour'st Verse, and Verse must send her wing", "To honour thee, the Priest of Phoebus Quire", "That tun'st their happiest lines in Hymn or Story", "Dante shall give Fame leave to set thee higher", "Then his Casella, whom he woo'd to sing", "Met in the milder shades of Purgatory.", "", "Note: 9 send] lend Cambridge Autograph MS." ], "linecount": "17" }, { "title": "Sonnet 13: O! that you were your self; but, love you are", "author": "William Shakespeare", "lines": [ "O! that you were your self; but, love you are", "No longer yours, than you your self here live:", "Against this coming end you should prepare,", "And your sweet semblance to some other give:", "So should that beauty which you hold in lease", "Find no determination; then you were", "Yourself again, after yourself's decease,", "When your sweet issue your sweet form should bear.", "Who lets so fair a house fall to decay,", "Which husbandry in honour might uphold,", "Against the stormy gusts of winter's day", "And barren rage of death's eternal cold?", " O! none but unthrifts. Dear my love, you know,", " You had a father: let your son say so." ], "linecount": "14" }, { "title": "Sonnet 130: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun", "author": "William Shakespeare", "lines": [ "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;", "Coral is far more red, than her lips red:", "If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;", "If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.", "I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,", "But no such roses see I in her cheeks;", "And in some perfumes is there more delight", "Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.", "I love to hear her speak, yet well I know", "That music hath a far more pleasing sound:", "I grant I never saw a goddess go,--", "My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:", " And yet by heaven, I think my love as rare,", " As any she belied with false compare." ], "linecount": "14" }, { "title": "Sonnet 131: Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art", "author": "William Shakespeare", "lines": [ "Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art,", "As those whose beauties proudly make them cruel;", "For well thou know'st to my dear doting heart", "Thou art the fairest and most precious jewel.", "Yet, in good faith, some say that thee behold,", "Thy face hath not the power to make love groan;", "To say they err I dare not be so bold,", "Although I swear it to myself alone.", "And to be sure that is not false I swear,", "A thousand groans, but thinking on thy face,", "One on another's neck, do witness bear", "Thy black is fairest in my judgment's place.", " In nothing art thou black save in thy deeds,", " And thence this slander, as I think, proceeds." ], "linecount": "14" }, { "title": "Sonnet 132: Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me", "author": "William Shakespeare", "lines": [ "Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me,", "Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain,", "Have put on black and loving mourners be,", "Looking with pretty ruth upon my pain.", "And truly not the morning sun of heaven", "Better becomes the grey cheeks of the east,", "Nor that full star that ushers in the even,", "Doth half that glory to the sober west,", "As those two mourning eyes become thy face:", "O! let it then as well beseem thy heart", "To mourn for me since mourning doth thee grace,", "And suit thy pity like in every part.", " Then will I swear beauty herself is black,", " And all they foul that thy complexion lack." ], "linecount": "14" }, { "title": "Sonnet 133: Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan", "author": "William Shakespeare", "lines": [ "Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan", "For that deep wound it gives my friend and me!", "Is't not enough to torture me alone,", "But slave to slavery my sweet'st friend must be?", "Me from myself thy cruel eye hath taken,", "And my next self thou harder hast engross'd:", "Of him, myself, and thee I am forsaken;", "A torment thrice three-fold thus to be cross'd:", "Prison my heart in thy steel bosom's ward,", "But then my friend's heart let my poor heart bail;", "Whoe'er keeps me, let my heart be his guard;", "Thou canst not then use rigour in my jail:", " And yet thou wilt; for I, being pent in thee,", " Perforce am thine, and all that is in me." ], "linecount": "14" }, { "title": "Sonnet 134: So, now I have confess'd that he is thine", "author": "William Shakespeare", "lines": [ "So, now I have confess'd that he is thine,", "And I my self am mortgag'd to thy will,", "Myself I'll forfeit, so that other mine", "Thou wilt restore to be my comfort still:", "But thou wilt not, nor he will not be free,", "For thou art covetous, and he is kind;", "He learn'd but surety-like to write for me,", "Under that bond that him as fast doth bind.", "The statute of thy beauty thou wilt take,", "Thou usurer, that putt'st forth all to use,", "And sue a friend came debtor for my sake;", "So him I lose through my unkind abuse.", " Him have I lost; thou hast both him and me:", " He pays the whole, and yet am I not free." ], "linecount": "14" }, { "title": "Sonnet 135: Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy 'Will,'", "author": "William Shakespeare", "lines": [ "Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy 'Will,'", "And 'Will' to boot, and 'Will' in over-plus;", "More than enough am I that vex'd thee still,", "To thy sweet will making addition thus.", "Wilt thou, whose will is large and spacious,", "Not once vouchsafe to hide my will in thine?", "Shall will in others seem right gracious,", "And in my will no fair acceptance shine?", "The sea, all water, yet receives rain still,", "And in abundance addeth to his store;", "So thou, being rich in 'Will,' add to thy 'Will'", "One will of mine, to make thy large will more.", " Let no unkind 'No' fair beseechers kill;", " Think all but one, and me in that one 'Will.'" ], "linecount": "14" }, { "title": "Sonnet 136: If thy soul check thee that I come so near", "author": "William Shakespeare", "lines": [ "If thy soul check thee that I come so near,", "Swear to thy blind soul that I was thy 'Will',", "And will, thy soul knows, is admitted there;", "Thus far for love, my love-suit, sweet, fulfil.", "'Will', will fulfil the treasure of thy love,", "Ay, fill it full with wills, and my will one.", "In things of great receipt with ease we prove", "Among a number one is reckon'd none:", "Then in the number let me pass untold,", "Though in thy store's account I one must be;", "For nothing hold me, so it please thee hold", "That nothing me, a something sweet to thee:", " Make but my name thy love, and love that still,", " And then thou lov'st me for my name is 'Will.'" ], "linecount": "14" }, { "title": "Sonnet 137: Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes", "author": "William Shakespeare", "lines": [ "Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes,", "That they behold, and see not what they see?", "They know what beauty is, see where it lies,", "Yet what the best is take the worst to be.", "If eyes, corrupt by over-partial looks,", "Be anchor'd in the bay where all men ride,", "Why of eyes' falsehood hast thou forged hooks,", "Whereto the judgment of my heart is tied?", "Why should my heart think that a several plot,", "Which my heart knows the wide world's common place?", "Or mine eyes, seeing this, say this is not,", "To put fair truth upon so foul a face?", " In things right true my heart and eyes have err'd,", " And to this false plague are they now transferr'd." ], "linecount": "14" }, { "title": "Sonnet 138: When my love swears that she is made of truth", "author": "William Shakespeare", "lines": [ "When my love swears that she is made of truth,", "I do believe her though I know she lies,", "That she might think me some untutor'd youth,", "Unlearned in the world's false subtleties.", "Thus vainly thinking that she thinks me young,", "Although she knows my days are past the best,", "Simply I credit her false-speaking tongue:", "On both sides thus is simple truth suppressed:", "But wherefore says she not she is unjust?", "And wherefore say not I that I am old?", "O! love's best habit is in seeming trust,", "And age in love, loves not to have years told:", " Therefore I lie with her, and she with me,", " And in our faults by lies we flatter'd be." ], "linecount": "14" }, { "title": "Sonnet 139: O! call not me to justify the wrong", "author": "William Shakespeare", "lines": [ "O! call not me to justify the wrong", "That thy unkindness lays upon my heart;", "Wound me not with thine eye, but with thy tongue:", "Use power with power, and slay me not by art,", "Tell me thou lov'st elsewhere; but in my sight,", "Dear heart, forbear to glance thine eye aside:", "What need'st thou wound with cunning, when thy might", "Is more than my o'erpress'd defence can bide?", "Let me excuse thee: ah! my love well knows", "Her pretty looks have been mine enemies;", "And therefore from my face she turns my foes,", "That they elsewhere might dart their injuries:", " Yet do not so; but since I am near slain,", " Kill me outright with looks, and rid my pain." ], "linecount": "14" } ]