Sonnets Flashcards
“The expense of spirit in a waste of shame
Is lust in action; and, till action, lust
Is perjured, murderous, bloody, full of blame,”
(Shakespeare) Sonnet 129
“When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,”
(Shakespeare) Sonnet 29
“Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,”
(Shakespeare) Sonnet 116
“Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,
But sad mortality o’er-sways their power,
How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea,”
(Shakespeare) Sonnet 65
“That time of year thou mayst in me behold
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,”
(Shakespeare) Sonnet 73
“Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth,
Fooled by these rebel powers that thee array,”
(Shakespeare) Sonnet 146
