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BASIC STRUCTURE
(2 sonnets)
153-154
1574
(26 sonnets) (26 sonnets)
1-----------26 127---------152
1590 1600 1601 1603
(100 sonnets)
27------------------------------------------------------------------126
8 Feb 1601 29 April 1603
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(TIME LINE of the Sonnets below)
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THE CENTER
(50 sonnets) (50 sonnets)
27-----------------76 77----------------126
Sonnet 76: "My Verse"
Sonnet 77: "Thy Book"
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The Bath Epilogue (Sonnets 153-154) is actually the prologue, representing the first year in the life of Southampton as "the Little Love-God" born in 1574.
The main string of the Shakespeare sonnets is divided into three segments by two envoys, Sonnet 26 and Sonnet 126, creating the central string of 100 sonnets:
"The Little Love-God"
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153-154
(2 sonnets)
"Lord of My Love" "My Lovely Boy"
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1------------26 27---------------------------------------126 127------------152
(26 sonnets) (100 sonnets) (26 sonnets)
The 100-sonnet center of the Monument is a diary beginning with Sonnet 27 upon the failure of the Essex Rebellion of February 8, 1601, when the popular earls of Essex and Southampton were taken as prisoners to the Tower of London.
The central sequence ends abruptly after the funeral of Queen Elizabeth I on April 28, 1603, with Sonnet 126 as Edward de Vere's farewell to "my lovely Boy."
TIME LINE OF THE SONNETS
PART ONE
LORD OF MY LOVE
Sonnets 1 - 26
(26 Sonnets)
THE MARRIAGE PROPOSAL (1590-1591)
SONNET 1 1590-91 “That Thereby Beauty’s Rose Might Never Die”
SONNET 2 1590-91 “Beauty By Succession”
SONNET 3 1590-91 “Thy Mother’s Glass … Thy Golden Time”
SONNET 4 1590-91 “The Bounteous Largess Given Thee to Give”
SONNET 5 1590-91 “Never-Resting Time Leads Summer On”
SONNET 6 1590-91 “Be Not Self-Willed”
SONNET 7 1590-91 “His Sacred Majesty”
SONNET 8 1590-91 “Sire, and Child, and Happy Mother”
SONNET 9 1590-91 “Beauty’s Waste”
SONNET 10 1590-91 “Make Thee Another Self For Love of Me”
SONNET 11 1590-91 “She Carved Thee for Her Seal”
SONNET 12 1590-91 “Time’s Scythe”
SONNET 13 1590-91 “Who Lets So Fair a House Fall to Decay”
SONNET 14 1590-91 “Thy End is Truth’s and Beauty’s Doom and Date”
SONNET 15 1590-91 “And All in War with Time for Love of You”
SONNET 16 1590-91 “This Bloody Tyrant Time”
SONNET 17 1591 MARRIAGE PROPOSAL ENDS
“Your True Rights”
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THE SHAKESPEARE COMMITMENT (1592-1600)
SONNET 18 1592 “When in Eternal Lines to Time Thou Grow’st”
SONNET 19 1593 “VENUS AND ADONIS” TO SOUTHAMPTON
“For Beauty’s Pattern to Succeeding Men”
SONNET 20 1594 “LUCRECE” TO SOUTHAMPTON
“A Man in Hew All Hews in His Controlling”
SONNET 21 1595 “Sunne and Moone”
SONNET 22 1596 “As Tender Nurse Her Babe”
SONNET 23 1597 “O Learn to Read What Silent Love Hath Writ”
SONNET 24 1598 “Your True Image”
SONNET 25 1599 IRISH CAMPAIGN; THE QUEEN’S DISFAVOR
“The Painful Warrior”
SONNET 26 1600 ENVOY
“Lord of My Love … This Written Ambassage”
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PART TWO
“MY LOVELY BOY”
Sonnets 27 – 126
(100 Sonnets)
THE PRISON YEARS (FEB 8, 1601-APRIL 9, 1603)
SONNET 27 Feb 8, 1601 THE REBELLION; IMPRISONMENT
“A Jewel Hung in Ghastly Night”
SONNET 28 Feb 9, 1601 “Day by Night and Night by Day Oppressed”
SONNET 29 Feb 10, 1601 “When in Disgrace with Fortune and Men’s Eyes”
SONNET 30 Feb 11, 1601 OXFORD SUMMONED TO SESSIONS – TRIAL
“When to the Sessions … I Summon Up Remembrance”
SONNET 31 Feb 12, 1601 “Thou Art the Grave Where Buried Love Doth Live”
SONNET 32 Feb 13, 1601 “A Dearer Birth”
SONNET 33 Feb 14, 1601 RECALLING SOUTHAMPTON’S BIRTH
“Even so My Sunne One Early Morn Did Shine”
SONNET 34 Feb 15, 1601 “Ransom All Ill Deeds”
SONNET 35 Feb 16, 1601 “Thy Adverse Party is Thy Advocate”
SONNET 36 Feb 17, 1601 SOUTHAMPTON INDICTED
“I May Not Ever-More Acknowledge Thee”
SONNET 37 Feb 18, 1601 “As a Decrepit Father”
SONNET 38 Feb 19, 1601 TRIAL, VERDICT & SENTENCE
“The Pain Be Mine”
SONNET 39 Feb 20, 1601 “Thou art All the Better Part of Me”
SONNET 40 Feb 21, 1601 “I Do Forgive Thy Robbery, Gentle Thief”
SONNET 41 Feb 22, 1601 “What Woman’s Son”
SONNET 42 Feb 23, 1601 “That She Hath Thee is of My Wailing Chief”
SONNET 43 Feb 24, 1601 “All Days are Nights”
SONNET 44 Feb 25, 1601 EXECUTION OF ESSEX BY BEHEADING
“Heavy Tears, Badges of Either’s Woe”
SONNET 45 Feb 26, 1601 SOUTHAMPTON’S HEALTH IMPROVES
“Assured of Thy Fair Health”
SONNET 46 Feb 27, 1601 “And by Their Verdict is Determined”
SONNET 47 Feb 28, 1601 OXFORD MAKES BARGAIN WITH CECIL
“A League is Took”
SONNET 48 March 1, 1601 “Locked Up”
SONNET 49 March 2, 1601 “To Guard the Lawful Reasons on Thy Part”
SONNET 50 March 3, 1601 OXFORD LEAVES HIS SON AFTER VISIT
“My Grief Lies Onward and My Joy Behind”
SONNET 51 March 4, 1601 OXFORD RECALLS LEAVING THE TOWER
“From Where Thou Art”
SONNET 52 March 5, 1601 TRIAL OF OTHER CONSPIRATORS
“Up-Locked”
SONNET 53 March 6, 1601 “Millions of Strange Shadows on You Tend”
SONNET 54 March 7, 1601 “Sweet Roses … Sweet Deaths”
SONNET 55 March 8, 1601 OXFORD VOWS “LIVING RECORD”
“The Living Record of Your Memory”
SONNET 56 March 9, 1601 “This Sad Interim”
SONNET 57 March 10, 1601 “I (My Sovereign) Watch the Clock for You”
SONNET 58 March 11, 1601 “Imprisoned … Pardon … Crime”
SONNET 59 March 12, 1601 “The Second Burden of a Former Child”
SONNET 60 March 13, 1601 EXECUTIONS OF MERRICK & CUFFE
“Crooked Eclipses ‘Gainst His Glory Fight”
SONNET 61 March 14, 1601 “To Play the Watchman Ever for Thy Sake”
SONNET 62 March 15, 1601 “’Tis Thee (My Self) That for My Self I Praise”
SONNET 63 March 16, 1601 “For Such a Time Do I Now Fortify”
SONNET 64 March 17, 1601 “This Thought is as a Death”
SONNET 65 March 18, 1601 EXECUTIONS OF DANVERS & BLOUNT
“How With This Rage Shall Beauty Hold a Plea?”
SONNET 66 March 19, 1601 ELIZABETH SPARES SOUTHAMPTON
“Save That to Die, I Leave My Love Alone”
SONNET 67 March 20, 1601 “Ah, Wherefore With Infection Should He Live?”
SONNET 68 March 21, 1601 “When Beauty Lived and Died as Flowers Do Now”
SONNET 69 March 22, 1601 SOUTHAMPTON REDUCED TO COMMONER
“Thou Dost Common Grow”
SONNET 70 March 23, 1601 “Thou Hast Passed By the Ambush”
SONNET 71 March 24, 1601 “Do Not So Much as My Poor Name Rehearse”
SONNET 72 March 25, 1601 “My Name Be Buried Where My Body Is”
SONNET 73 March 26, 1601 “THE PHOENIX & TURTLE”
“Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang”
SONNET 74 March 27, 1601 “My Spirit is Thine, the Better Part of Me”
SONNET 75 March 28, 1601 “All, or All Away”
SONNET 76 March 29, 1601 OXFORD’S “INVENTION”
“And Keep Invention in a Noted Weed”
SONNET 77 March 30, 1601 DEDICATION OF “THIS BOOK”
“This Book … Thy Book”
SONNET 78 March 31, 1601 SACRIFICE TO “SHAKESPEARE” (RIVAL POET)
“Every Alien Pen Hath Got My Use”
SONNET 79 April 1, 1601 “My Sick Muse Doth Give Another Place”
SONNET 80 April 2, 1601 “Knowing a Better Spirit Doth Use Your Name”
SONNET 81 April 3, 1601 OXFORD VOWS “MONUMENT”
“Your Monument Shall Be My Gentle Verse”
SONNET 82 April 4, 1601 “The Dedicated Words … Blessing Every Book”
SONNET 83 April 5, 1601 “Both Your Poets”
SONNET 84 April 6, 1601 “If He Can Tell That You are You”
SONNET 85 April 7, 1601 “My Tongue-Tied Muse”
SONNET 86 April 8, 1601 SACRIFICE TO “SHAKESPEARE” ENDS
“The Proud Full Sail of His Great Verse”
SONNET 87 April 9, 1601 CRIME REDUCED TO “MISPRISION”
“Upon Misprision Growing”
SONNET 88 May 1601 INSTRUCTIONS TO ROYAL SON
“For Thy Right Myself Will Bear All Wrong”
SONNET 89 June 1601 “I Will Acquaintance Strangle and Look Strange”
SONNET 90 July 1601 “To Linger Out a Purposed Overthrow”
SONNET 91 Aug 1601 “Thy Love is Better Than High Birth to Me”
SONNET 92 Sept 1601 “For Term of Life … On Thy Revolt”
SONNET 93 Oct 1601 “Heaven in Thy Creation Did Decree”
SONNET 94 Nov 1601 “Inherit Heaven’s Graces”
SONNET 95 Dec 1601 “A Canker in the Fragrant Rose”
SONNET 96 Jan 1602 “On the Finger of a Throned Queen…”
SONNET 97 Feb 8, 1602 FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF REBELLION
“How Like a Winter … The Fleeting Year”
SONNET 98 March-April 1602 “From You Have I Been Absent”
SONNET 99 May-June 1602 “The Roses Fearfully on Thorns Did Stand”
SONNET 100 July-Aug 1602 “Give My Love Fame Faster Than Time Wastes Life”
SONNET 101 Sept-Oct 1602 “Both Truth and Beauty on My Love Depends”
SONNET 102 Nov-Dec 1602 “My Love is Strengthened, Though More Weak in Seeming”
SONNET 103 Jan 1603 “O Blame Me Not if I No More Can Write!”
SONNET 104 Feb 8, 1603 SECOND ANNIVERSARY OF REBELLION
“Three Winters Cold …”
SONNET 105 March 24, 1603 QUEEN’S DEATH; SUCCESSION OF JAMES
“Which Three, Till Now, Never Kept Seat in One”
SONNET 106 April 9, 1603 LAST DAY/NIGHT IN THE TOWER
“When in the Chronicle of Wasted Time”
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THE FINAL DAYS (APRIL 10, 1603 – APRIL 29, 1603)
SONNET 107 April 10, 1603 SOUTHAMPTON LIBERATED
“Supposed as Forfeit to a Confined Doom”
SONNET 108 April 11, 1603 “Prayers Divine … Thou Mine, I Thine”
SONNET 109 April 12, 1603 OXFORD WILL BE WATER-BEARER
“My Self Bring Water for My Stain”
SONNET 110 April 13, 1603 “A God in Love, to Whom I am Confined”
SONNET 111 April 14, 1603 “The Guilty Goddess”
SONNET 112 April 15, 1603 “You Are My All The World”
SONNET 113 April 16, 1603 FINAL MEETING
“Since I Left You”
SONNET 114 April 17, 1603 OXFORD WILL PREPARE CUP
“And to His Palate Doth Prepare the Cup”
SONNET 115 April 18, 1603 “Change Decrees of Kings”
SONNET 116 April 19, 1603 “The Marriage of True Minds”
SONNET 117 April 20, 1603 “The Constancy and Virtue of Your Love”
SONNET 118 April 21, 1603 “And Brought to Medicine a Healthful State”
SONNET 119 April 22, 1603 “Ruined Love When It is Built Anew Grows Fairer”
SONNET 120 April 23, 1603 “Your Crime … Your Trespass … Ransom”
SONNET 121 April 24, 1603 “I Am That I Am”
SONNET 122 April 25, 1603 “Thy Record Never Can Be Missed”
SONNET 123 April 26, 1603 “No! Time, Thou Shalt Not Boast That I Do Change”
SONNET 124 April 27, 1603 “If My Dear Love Were But the Child of State”
SONNET 125 April 28, 1603 QUEEN’S FUNERAL; END OF TUDOR DYNASTY
“The Canopy … Take Thou My Oblation”
SONNET 126 April 29, 1603 ENVOY OF FAREWELL
“O Thou my Lovely Boy, Who in Thy Power”
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PART THREE
“TWO LOVES I HAVE”
SONNETS 127 - 152
(26 Sonnets)
THE DARK LADY SERIES (February 8, 1601 - March 24, 1603)
SONNET 127 Feb 8, 1601
THE REBELLION; IMPRISONMENT
“Beauty’s Successive Heir … Bastard Shame”
SONNET 128 Feb 25, 1601
EXECUTION OF ESSEX
“Those Jacks That Nimble Leap … Dead Wood”
SONNET 129 “The Expense of Spirit in a Waste of Shame”
SONNET 130 “My Mistress’ Eyes are Nothing Like the Sunne”
SONNET 131 “Thy Black is Fairest in My Judgment’s Place”
SONNET 132 “Those Two Mourning Eyes Become Thy Face”
SONNET 133 “Of Him, My Self, and Thee, I Am Forsaken”
SONNET 134 “My Self I’ll Forfeit”
SONNET 135 “Let No Unkind, No Fair Beseechers Kill”
SONNET 136 “Among a Number One is Reckoned None”
SONNET 137 “Why of Eyes’ Falsehood Has Thou Forged Hooks?”
SONNET 138 REVISED FROM “PASSIONATE PILGRIM”
“Her False-Speaking Tongue”
SONNET 139 “Kill Me Outright”
SONNET 140 “If I Should Despair I Should Grow Mad”
SONNET 141 “Thy Proud Heart’s Slave and Vassal Wretch”
SONNET 142 “Love is My Sin, and Thy Dear Virtue Hate”
SONNET 143 “Her Neglected Child … I, Thy Babe”
SONNET 144 REVISED FROM “PASSIONATE PILGRIM”
“Two Loves I Have of Comfort and Despair”
SONNET 145 March 19, 1601
ELIZABETH SPARES SOUTHAMPTON
“Straight in Her Heart Did Mercy Come”
SONNET 146 “Thy Fading Mansion … Is This Thy Body’s End?”
SONNET 147 “Who Art Black as Hell, as Dark as Night”
SONNET 148 “So Vexed With Watching and With Tears”
SONNET 149 “Commanded by the Motion of Thine Eyes”
SONNET 150 “To Make Me Give the Lie to My True Sight”
SONNET 151 “For Thou Betraying Me, I Do Betray My Nobler Part”
SONNET 152 March 24, 1603
DEATH OF ELIZABETH
“To Swear Against the Truth So Foul a Lie”
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EPILOGUE - PROLOGUE
“THE LITTLE LOVE-GOD”
Sonnets 153-154
(2 Sonnets)
THE BATH VISIT (1574)
SONNET 153 August 1574
OXFORD & ELIZABETH AT BATH
“The Boy … My Mistress’ Eye”
SONNET 154 August 1574
OXFORD & ELIZABETH AT BATH
“The Little Love-God … By a Virgin Hand Disarmed
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