My love is stronger, although it appears weaker: I don’t love any less, although I show my love less. Home Shakespeare's Sonnets E-Text: Sonnet 102 E-Text Shakespeare's Sonnets Sonnet 102. Here, the…This sonnet describes what Booth calls “the life cycle of lust”—a moment of bliss preceded by madness and followed by…This sonnet plays with poetic conventions in which, for example, the mistress’s eyes are compared with the sun, her lips…The poet disagrees with those who say that his mistress is not beautiful enough to make a lover miserable. The…This sonnet seems to have been written to accompany the gift of a blank notebook. If no love is, O God, what fele I so - The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and supporting American poets. He uses seasonal imagery to set up his atmosphere, which he continues to use in line three, where we also encounter an allusion to the myth of On line 8, "His" is the word which appears in the original 1609 Quarto. Just as the young man’s…The poet returns to the idea of beauty as treasure that should be invested for profit. sister projects: Wikipedia article, Wikidata item. Our love was new, and then but in the spring, Gwynne Blakemore Evans believes that this is an attempt to apologize for a period of silence.My love is stronger than it's ever been, even though my love may seem to have diminished. It goes on to argue that only…This sonnet, like s. 153, retells the parable of Cupid’s torch turning a fountain into a hot bath, this time to…You can get your own copy of this text to keep. As that fragrance is distilled into perfume, so…Continuing the idea of the beloved’s distillation into poetry (in the couplet of s. 54), the poet now claims that his…The poet addresses the spirit of love and then the beloved, urging that love be reinvigorated and that the present…In this and the following sonnet, the poet presents his relationship with the beloved as that of servant and master….This sonnet repeats the ideas and some of the language of s. 57, though the pain of waiting upon (and waiting…The poet here plays with the idea of history as cyclical and with the proverb “There is nothing new under…The poet meditates on life’s inevitable course through maturity to death. He then admits that the…By preserving the youthful beauty of the beloved in poetry, the poet makes preparation for the day that the beloved…Signs of the destructive power of time and decay—such as fallen towers and eroded beaches—force the poet to admit that…In the face of the terrible power of Time, how, the poet asks, can beauty survive? I used to sing my praises very frequently when our love was new, like the nightingale which sings in the summer and stops at summers end. Year Published: 1609 Language: English Country of Origin: England Source: Shakespeare, W. The sonnets. The English sonnet has three quatrains, followed by a final rhyming couplet. He warns…Arguing that his poetry is not idolatrous in the sense of “polytheistic,” the poet contends that he celebrates only a…The poet, in reading descriptions of beautiful knights and ladies in old poetry, realizes that the poets were trying to…This sonnet celebrates an external event that had threatened to be disastrous but that has turned out to be wonderful….The poet explains that his repeated words of love and praise are like daily prayer; though old, they are always…The poet defends his infidelities, arguing that his return washes away the blemish of his having left.The poet confesses to having been unfaithful to the beloved, but claims that his straying has rejuvenated him and made…In this first of two linked poems, the poet blames Fortune for putting him in a profession that led to…The pity asked for in s. 111 has here been received, and the poet therefore has no interest in others’ opinions of…In this first of two linked sonnets, the poet confesses that everything he sees is transformed into an image of…In a continuation of s. 113, the poet debates whether the lovely images of the beloved are true or are the…The poet acknowledges that the very fact that his love has grown makes his earlier poems about the fullness and…The poet here meditates on what he sees as the truest and strongest kind of love, that between minds. The nightingale is used as a metaphor to explain that just because he does not flatter the Fair Youth, does not mean that he loves less. That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner’s tongue doth publish everywhere. It would be easy for the beloved to be…This sonnet describes a category of especially blessed and powerful people who appear to exert complete control over their lives…In this first of a pair of related poems, the poet accuses the beloved of using beauty to hide a…As in the companion s. 95, the beloved is accused of enjoying the love of many despite his faults, which youth…In this first of three sonnets about a period of separation from the beloved, the poet remembers the time as…The poet here remembers an April separation, in which springtime beauty seemed to him only a pale reflection of the…This third poem about the beloved’s absence is closely linked to s. 98.