Shakespeare sonnets to memorize
A Shakespeare sonnet is fourteen lines with a clear shape: three quatrains and a closing couplet. That structure makes the sonnets some of the easiest classic poems to memorize. Start with Sonnet 18 or 116.
- Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? — William Shakespeare · 14 lines
- Sonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds — William Shakespeare · 14 lines
- Sonnet 130: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun — William Shakespeare · 14 lines
- Sonnet 29: When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes — William Shakespeare · 14 lines
- Sonnet 30: When to the sessions of sweet silent thought — William Shakespeare · 14 lines
- Sonnet 73: That time of year thou mayst in me behold — William Shakespeare · 14 lines
- Sonnet 55: Not marble, nor the gilded monuments — William Shakespeare · 14 lines
- Sonnet 1: From fairest creatures we desire increase — William Shakespeare · 14 lines
- Sonnet 60: Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore — William Shakespeare · 14 lines
- Sonnet 65: Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea — William Shakespeare · 14 lines
- Sonnet 71: No longer mourn for me when I am dead — William Shakespeare · 14 lines
- Sonnet 94: They that have power to hurt, and will do none — William Shakespeare · 14 lines
- Sonnet 104: To me, fair friend, you never can be old — William Shakespeare · 14 lines
- Sonnet 106: When in the chronicle of wasted time — William Shakespeare · 14 lines
- Sonnet 138: When my love swears that she is made of truth — William Shakespeare · 14 lines
- Sonnet 146: Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth — William Shakespeare · 14 lines