Its a lurve thang
and a crime of the heart!


Fair Young Man (FYM) sonnets.

Q10 For shame! deny that thou bearst love to any,

Q22My glass shall not persuade me I am old

Q25 Let those who are in favour with their stars,
Q26Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage

Q36 Let me confess that we two must be twain,
Q37 As a decrepit father takes delight
Q39 O how thy worth with manners may I sing,

Q46 Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war,
Q47 Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took,

Q48 How careful was I, when I took my way,
Q49 Against that time (if ever that time come)

Q50 How heavy do I journey on the way,
Q51 Thus can my love excuse the slow offence,

Q61 Is it thy will thy image should keep open

Q75 So are you to my thoughts as food to life,
Q76 Why is my verse so barren of new pride,

Q80 O how I faint when I of you do write,

Q88 When thou shalt be disposed to set me light,

Q91 Some glory in their birth, some in their skill,

Q93 So shall I live supposing thou art true

Q96 Some say thy fault is youth, some wantoness,

Q102 My love is strengthened though more weak in seeming,

Q105 Let not my love be called idolatry,

Q108 What's in the brain that ink may character,
Q109 O never say that I was false of heart,

Q110 Alas t'is true, I have gone here and there,
Q111 O for my sake do you with fortune chide,
Q112 Your love and pity doth th'impression fill,

Q115 Those lines that I before have writ, do lie;
Q116 Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Q117 Accuse me thus:that I have scanted all

Q118 Like as to make our appetites more keen
Q119 What potions have I drunk of siren tears,

Q122 Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain

Q125 Were't aught to me I bore the canopy,

Dark Lady (DL) Sonnets.

Q137 Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes,

Q143 Lo as a careful housewife runs to catch

Q149 Canst thou, O cruel, say I love thee not,

Q151 Love is too young to know what conscience is,
Q152 In loving thee thou know'st I am forsworn,

Q153 Cupid laid by his brand and fell asleep,
Q154 The little love-god lying once asleep,


An Ordering of the Sonnets?
Verse Time Muse Love Beauty
Immortal THEMES Element
Hate Eyes Sex Music Affair
The Characters in the Sonnets?
The Plot - Is there one?
Some Respected opinions