excerpts on the theme of love from Shakespeare's sonnets
Below is a compilation
of references I found on the theme of love in Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets:
Thou art thy
Mother’s glass, and she in thee
Calls back
the lovely April of her prime
Sonnet 3
Herein lives
wisdom, beauty and increase
Sonnet 11
truth and
beauty shall together thrive
Sonnet 14
If I could
write the beauty of your eyes
And In fresh
numbers number all your graces
Sonnet 17
Shall I
compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art
more lovely and more temperate
…thy eternal
summer shall not fade
Sonnet 18
…the seemly
raiment of my heart,
Which in thy
breast doth live, as thine in me
Sonnet 22
For then my
thoughts, from far where I abide,
Intend a
zealous pilgrimage to thee
Sonnet 27
For thy
sweet love remembered such wealth brings
Sonnet 29
And thou,
all they, hast all the all of me.
Sonnet 31
And there
reigns love and all love’s loving parts
Sonnet 31
Yet doth it
steal sweet hours from love’s delight
Sonnet 36
To entertain
the time with thoughts of love
Sonnet 39
Take all my
loves, my love, yea, take them all
Sonnet 40
But when I
sleep, in dreams they look on thee…
…nights
bright days, when dreams do show thee me
Sonnet 43
With my
love’s picture, then my eye doth feast
Sonnet 47
…greet me
with that sun, thine eye
Sonnet 49
…desire, of
perfect’st love being made,
…Towards
thee I’ll run
Sonnet 51
On Helen’s
cheek all art of beauty set
Sonnet 53
…how much
more doth beauty beauteous seem
Sonnet 54
You live in
this, and dwell in lovers’ eyes.
Sonnet 55
Sweet love,
renew thy force…
Sonnet 56
…the
treasure of his spring.
Sonnet 63
…summer’s
honey breath…
That in
black ink my love may still shine bright.
Sonnet 65
…heaven’s
sweetest air
Sonnet 70
My spirit is
thine, the better part of me
Sonnet 74
So are you
to my thoughts as food to life
Or as
sweet-seasoned showers are to the ground
…all full
with feasting on your sight
Sonnet 75
O, know,
sweet love, I always write of you,
And you and
love are still my argument
…For as the
sun is daily new and old,
So is my
love still telling what is told.
Sonnet
76
…thou art
all my art…
Sonnet 78
…you alone
are you
Sonnet 84
…bending all
my loving thoughts on thee
…Such is my
love, to thee I so belong
Sonnet 88
…thy sweet
beloved name
Sonnet 89
Thy love is
better than high birth to m e
Sonnet 91
But heaven
in thy creation did decree
That in thy
face sweet love should ever dwell
Sonnet 93
The summer’s
flower is to the summer sweet
Sonnet 94
How like a
winter hath my absence been
From thee
Sonnet 97
To me, fair
friend, you never can be old,
For, as you
were when first your eye I eyed
Such seems
your beauty still
…In process
of the seasons have I seen,
Three April
perfumes in three hot Junes burned
Sonnet 104
Kind is my
love today
Sonnet 105
…in the
blazon of sweet beauty’s best,
Of hand, of
foot, of lip, of eye, of brow
Sonnet 106
…thou art my
all
Sonnet 109
You are my
all the world
Sonnet 112
…Love is not
love
Which alters
when it alterations finds
…It is the
star to every wandering bark
…Love’s not
Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his
bending sickle’s compass come
Sonnet 116
Nor need I
tallies thy dear love to score
Sonnet 122
To kiss the
tender inward of thy hand,
Whilst my
poor lips…by thee blushing stand.
Sonnet 128
…I think my
love as rare
As any she
belied with false compare.
Sonnet 130
Thou art the
fairest and most precious jewel
Sonnet 131
My reason,
the physician to my love,
Angry that
his prescriptions are not kept
Sonnet 147
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