Learn about the sonnets, find summaries, and discover more folger resources.

Webread and download shakespeare's sonnets for free.

Webtake your pick of shakespeare’s sonnets below, along with a modern english interpretation of each one aid understanding.

Recommended for you

Webfollowers of this line of argument suggest that shakespeare acknowledged the double desertion in sonnet 40—'take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all'—and.

No love, my love, that thou mayst true love call;

Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets published in his ‘quarto’.

From fairest creatures we desire increase, that thereby beauty’s rose might never die, but as the riper should by time decease, his tender heir might bear his memory:

From fairest creatures we desire increase, that thereby beauty’s rose might never die, but as the riper should by time decease, his tender heir might.

What hast thou then more than thou hadst before?

All mine was thine, before thou.

Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest, now is the time that face should form another, whose fresh repair if now thou not renewest, thou dost.

Shall i compare thee to a summer’s day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of may, and summer’s.

Webtake all my loves, my love, yea take them all;

You may also like