Notes on Sonnet 23, line 6: “The perfect ceremony of love’s rite”
Notes on Sonnet 17, line 1: “Who will believe my verse”
Notes on Sonnet 16, line 4: “more blessed than my barren rhyme”
Notes on Sonnet 15, line 9: “the conceit of this inconstant stay”
Notes on Sonnet 12, line 10: “thou among the wastes of time must go”
Notes on Sonnet 6, line 5: “That use is not forbidden usury”
Notes on Sonnet 5, line 7: “Sap check’d with frost and lust leaves quite gone”
Notes on Sonnet 2, line 7: “To say within thine own deep sunken eyes”
Notes on Sonnet 1 line 5 “But thou contracted to thine own bright eyes”
Text and explanation of Sonnet 20
Text and explanation of Sonnet 19
Text and explanation of Sonnet 18
Text and explanation of Sonnet 17
Text and explanation of Sonnets 15 and 16
Text and explanation of Sonnet 14
Text and explanation of Sonnet 13
Text and explanation of Sonnet 12