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The Fair Youth Sonnets (sonnets 1 – 126)
Read Shakespeare’s sonnets first hand on About.com. Here, you can read the first sequence of sonnets called the Fair Youth Sonnets.
Sonnet 1
The complete text to Shakespeare's Sonnet 1 - From Fairest Creatures We Desire Increase.
Sonnet 21
Sonnet 21 - So Is It Not With Me As With That Muse. Read the complete text to sonnet 21 here.
Sonnet 18
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? Read the complete text here.
Sonnet 19
Devouring Time, Blunt Thou the Lion's Paws. Read the complete text here.
Sonnet 20
A Woman's Face with Nature's own Hand Painted. Read the complete text here.
Fair Youth Sonnets
What are the Fair Youth Sonnets? The first 126 of Shakespeare’s sonnets are addressed to the fair youth with whom the poet has a deep and loving friendship.
Fair Youth Sonnets
The 126 sonnets that make up the Fair Youth Sequence comprise many of Shakespeare’s most famous poems including ‘Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day?’ (Sonnet 18). View the complete list of Shakespeare’s Fair Youth Sonnets here.
Sonnet 1
The complete text to Shakespeare's Sonnet 1 - From Fairest Creatures We Desire Increase.
Sonnet 10
The complete text to Shakespeare's Sonnet 10 - For Shame! Deny That Thou Bear'st Love To Any.
Sonnet 11
The complete text to Shakespeare's Sonnet 11 - As Fast As Thou Shalt Wane, So Fast Thou Growest.
Sonnet 12
The complete text to Shakespeare's Sonnet 12 - When I Do Count The Clock That Tells The Time.
Sonnet 13
The complete text to Shakespeare's Sonnet 13 - O, That You Were Yourself! But, Love, You Are.
Sonnet 14
The complete text to Shakespeare's Sonnet 14 - Not From The Stars Do I My Judgment Pluck.
Sonnet 15
The complete text to Shakespeare's Sonnet 15 - When I Consider Every Thing That Grows.
Sonnet 17
The complete text to Shakespeare's Sonnet 17 - Who Will Believe My Verse In Time To Come.
Sonnet 2
The complete text to Shakespeare's Sonnet 2 - When Forty Winters Shall Beseige Thy Brow.
Sonnet 3
The complete text to Shakespeare's Sonnet 3 - Look In Thy Glass, And Tell The Face Thou Viewest.
Sonnet 4
The complete text to Shakespeare's Sonnet 4 - Unthrifty Loveliness, Why Dost Thou Spend.
Sonnet 5
The complete text to Shakespeare's Sonnet 5 - Those Hours, That With Gentle Work Did Frame.
Sonnet 6
The complete text to Shakespeare's Sonnet 6 - Then Let Not Winter's Ragged Hand Deface.
Sonnet 7
The complete text to Shakespeare's Sonnet 7 - In The Orient When The Gracious Light.
Sonnet 8
The complete text to Shakespeare's Sonnet 8 - Music To Hear, Why Hear'st Thou Music Sadly?
Sonnet 9
The complete text to Shakespeare's Sonnet 9 - Is It For Fear To Wet A Widow's Eye.
Sonnet 16
The complete text to Shakespeare's Sonnet 16 - But Wherefore Do Not You A Mightier Way.
Sonnet 37
The complete text to Shakespeare's sonnet 37 - As A Decrepit Father Takes Delight.
Sonnet 36
The complete text to Shakespeare's sonnet 36 - Let Me Confess That We Two Must Be Twain.
Sonnet 35
The complete text to Shakespeare's sonnet 35 - No More Be Grieved At That Which Thou Hast Done.
Sonnet 34
The complete text to Shakespeare's sonnet 34 - Why Didst Thou Promise Such A Beauteous Day.
Sonnet 33
The complete text to Shakespeare's sonnet 33 - Full Many A Glorious Morning Have I Seen.
Sonnet 32
The complete text to Shakespeare's sonnet 32 - If Thou Survive My Well-Contented Day.
Sonnet 31
The complete text to Shakespeare's sonnet 31 - Thy Bosom Is Endeared With All Hearts.
Sonnet 30
The complete text to Shakespeare's sonnet 30 - When To The Sessions Of Sweet Silent Thought.
Sonnet 29
The complete text to Shakespeare's sonnet 29 - When, In Disgrace With Fortune And Men's Eyes.
Sonnet 28
The complete text to Shakespeare's sonnet 28 - How Can I Then Return In Happy Plight.
Sonnet 27
The complete text to Shakespeare's sonnet 27 - Weary With Toil, I Haste Me To My Bed.
Sonnet 26
The complete text to Shakespeare's sonnet 26 - Lord Of My Love, To Whom In Vassalage.
Sonnet 22
The complete text to Shakespeare's Sonnet 22 - My Glass Shall Not Persuade Me I Am Old.
Sonnet 23
The complete text to Shakespeare's sonnet 23 - As An Unperfect Actor On The Stage.
Sonnet 24
The complete text to Shakespeare's sonnet 24 - Mine Eye Hath Play'd The Painter And Hath Stell'.
Sonnet 25
The complete text to Shakespeare's sonnet 25 - Let Those Who Are In Favour With Their Stars.
Sonnet 40
The complete text to Shakespeare(s sonnet 40 - Take All My Loves, My Love, Yea, Take Them All.
Sonnet 39
The complete text to Shakespeare's sonnet 39 - O, How Thy Worth With Manners May I Sing.
Sonnet 38
The complete text to Shakespeare's sonnet 38 - How Can My Muse Want Subject To Invent.
Sonnet 41
The complete text to Shakespeare's sonnet 41 - Those Petty Wrongs That Liberty Commits.
Sonnet 42
The complete text to Shakespeare's sonnet 42 - That Thou Hast Her, It Is Not All My Grief.
Sonnet 49
The complete text to Shakespeare's sonnet 49 - Against That Time, If Ever That Time Come.
Sonnet 51
The complete text to Shakespeare's sonnet 51 - Thus Can My Love Excuse The Slow Offence.
Sonnet 52
The complete text to Shakespeare's sonnet 52 - So Am I As The Rich, Whose Blessed Key.
Sonnet 53
The complete text to Shakespeare's sonnet 53 - What Is Your Substance, Whereof Are You Made.
Sonnet 54
The complete text to Shakespeare's sonnet 54 - How Much More Doth Beauty Beauteous Seem.
Sonnet 55
The complete text to Shakespeare's sonnet 55 - Not Marble, Nor The Gilded Monuments.
Sonnet 56
The complete text to Shakespeare's sonnet 56 - Sweet Love, Renew Thy Force; Be It Not Said.
Sonnet 57
The complete text to Shakespeare's sonnet 57 - Sweet Love, Renew Thy Force; Be It Not Said.
Sonnet 58
The complete text to Shakespeare's sonnet 58 - Being Your Slave, What Should I Do But Tend.
Sonnet 59
The complete text to Shakespeare's sonnet 59 - If There Be Nothing New, But That Which Is.
Sonnet 60
The complete text to Shakespeare's sonnet 60 - Like As The Waves Make Towards The Pebbled Shore.
Sonnet 43
The complete text to Shakespeare's sonnet 43 - When Most I Wink, Then Do Mine Eyes Best See.
Sonnet 44
The complete text to Shakespeare's sonnet 44 - If The Dull Substance Of My Flesh Were Thought.
Sonnet 45
The complete text to Shakespeare's sonnet 45 - The Other Two, Slight Air and Purging Fire.
Sonnet 46
The complete text to Shakespeare's sonnet 46 - Mine Eye And Heart Are At A Mortal War.
Sonnet 47
The complete text to Shakespeare's sonnet 47 - Betwixt Mine Eye And Heart A League Is Took.
Sonnet 48
The complete text to Shakespeare's sonnet 48 - How Careful Was I, When I Took My Way.
Sonnet 50
The complete text to Shakespeare's sonnet 50 - How Heavy Do I Journey On The Way.