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Please note that not all the links will take you to an archived web page.  The links to individual sonnets will probably take you to the new page, rather than the old one.  What is chiefly preserved in this archive are those files which have not yet been replaced in the redesigned format.  However all of the art files should be available from here, including the views of London Bridge and Cheapside. 

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All the sonnets are provided here, with descriptive commentary attached to each one, giving explanations of difficult and unfamiliar words and phrases, and with a full analysis of any special problems of interpretation which arise. Follow the instructions below to find your way around. Sonnets by other Elizabethan poets are also included, Spenser, Sidney, Drayton and a few other minor authors. The poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt are also given, with both old and modern spelling versions, and with brief notes provided. Check the list below for full details of what is available.

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Morning Amusement

Sponsa di Libano    Bluezelind   Jean Pillement - Landscape     F. Wheatley - The Fair

Horsley Children   Vigée Le Brun self portrait   The Shrimp Girl      Finis  

 A Man-trap. Artist unknown.   William Ward - Almeida  Marchioness of Townshend by Angelica Kauffman      

          

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Brueghel Children's Games  Brueghel. The Bay of Naples  Brueghel. The Temptation of St. Anthony.  Brueghel. The Archangel Michael.

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If you know the number of the sonnet you wish to look at, then go to any one of the three categories below, Sonnets 1-50, 51-100 or 101-154, then follow directions from there. If you do not know which sonnet it is you wish to look at, but you know a line or a phrase, then do a global search using the plain text web page listed below. Then, having identified the sonnet, return to the home page, using the Back button on your browser and navigate from there. Alternatively, if you know the first line of the sonnet, go straight to the first line index listed below. If you are in difficulty, go to the Map of the site, which should help to give you your bearings. It is worth remembering that Google (the search engine) will often point you straight to a sonnet on this web site even if you only know one line, or a part of it. The commentaries (listed on the Map page) have a first line index, or else you may go direct to the first line index from the link below. Please note: the web master does not have time to answer homework or essay queries. Look at the page for the sonnet you want and you might find the answer to your question. All the sonnets are linked to individual commentaries. These have all been revised and should be of uniform format

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Also included are the poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt. Notes are given for each poem, and a first line index is provided. See below. There is also a separate page giving access to all the Holbein portraits used.  

Also available is A Lover's Complaint, which was printed with the Sonnets in 1609.
It is provided with notes alongside . See
below.

Commentaries on the Title page and Thorpe's Dedication are given at the head of  Sonnets 1 - 50 or see below.

The millionth recorded visitor to this home page clocked in at 16.55 GMT on 10th March 2005. 
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JANUARY 2004
The book version (of all the text and commentaries) is currently out of print. 


England's Helicon,   a miscellany of poems published in 1600.  A small part of this work is available.
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FEBRUARY 2009:     Some Introductory Notes to the Sonnets

POEMS ANCIENT AND MODERN. A SELECTION OF POEMS FOR ST. VALENTINE'S DAY.
A selection of love poems provided originally for St. Valentine's day, some previously unpublished. Additions are made from time to time.
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Henry and Emma
Painted by John Opie R.A.
circa 1790
Engraved by F. Bartolozzi.

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A Lover's Complaint. Text and Commentary.
 
 

 Commentaries on the Title page and Thorpe's Dedication
 
     

 Further commentary on the onlie begetter

 
     
 

The Sonnets text and commentaries are no longer available in print. Details will be given when a reprint is organised.
 
     
 

 Views of Cheapside, London, from a print of 1639.
 
     
     Poems for St. Valentine's Day.  
     

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Marlowe in Henry V.     

  A work by Dr. T. Merriam which examines the Marlovian content in Shakespeare's Henry V.   Published by Oxquarry Books Ltd.

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All 154 of the sonnets are included here.

This one, Sonnet 60, gives the flavour of many.

For the remainder, click on the list above, or scroll to the bottom of the page.

 

     
 
LX

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,

So do our minutes hasten to their end,

Each changing place with that which goes before

In sequent toil all forwards do contend.

Nativity, once in the main of light,

Crawls to maturity, wherewith, being crowned,

Crooked eclipses 'gainst his glory fight

And Time that gave, doth now his gift confound.

Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth,

And delves the parallels in beauty's brow,

Feeds on the rarities of natures truth,

And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow;

    And yet, to times, in hope, my verse shall stand,

    Praising thy worth, despite his cruel hand.

 
     


  
 


Comments, interpretations, explanations, history and exegesis.

All the sonnets have individual commentaries attached.

 


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Lucy Harington, Countess of Bedford, by Isaac Oliver, c. 1600.

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The Wood Nymph, circa 1790.
By Samuel Woodeforde R.A.
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Henry and Emma
Painted by John Opie R.A.
circa 1790
Engraved by F. Bartolozzi.

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Adelaide

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The Winter's Glow

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The Honourable Mr. Leicester Stanhope.

Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds c. 1780                                    Engraved by F. Bartolozzi.

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An Elizabethan gentleman circa 1577.
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Bernardino dei Conti. Beatrice D'Este, The Duchess of Milan, c. 1500.
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The Avon at Stratford. Painted by F. S. Walker, circa 1906.
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Jacqueline de Bourgogne, by Jan Gassaert de Mabuse, circa 1530.
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ADAM BUCK circa 1820. 'I have not learned my book, Mamma. '
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Saturday Morning, or The Cottager's Merchandise. By W. R. Bigg, c 1800 ?
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Pillement. Landscape.
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Thomas Wyatt Poems Other Authors General notes  for background details, general policies etc. Map of the site Valentine Poems
London Bridge   as it was in Shakespeare's day, circa 1600. Views of London   as it was in 1616. Views of  Cheapside  London, from a print of 1639. The Carrier's  Cosmography.   A guide to all the Carriers in London.  As given by John Taylor in 1637. Oxquarry Books Ltd
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