William shakespeare sonnets sparknotes

Shakespeare's Sonnets

The Sonnets are Shakespeare's most popular works, and a few of them, such as Sonnet 18 (Shall I compare thee to a summer's day), Sonnet 116 (Let me not to the marriage of true minds), and Sonnet 73 (That time of year thou mayst in me behold), have become the most widely-read poems in all of English literature.

Here you will find the text of each Shakespearean sonnet with commentary for most.

Sonnet 1	-	From fairest creatures we desire increase
Sonnet 2	-	When forty winters shall beseige thy brow
Sonnet 3	-	Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest
Sonnet 4	-	Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend
Sonnet 5	-	Those hours, that with gentle work did frame
Sonnet 6	-	Then let not winter's ragged hand deface
Sonnet 7	-	Lo! in the orient when the gracious light
Sonnet 8	-	Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?
Sonnet 9	-	Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye
Sonnet 10	-	For shame! deny that