@Techmeme@techhub.socialCharlotte-based Lucid Bots, which manufactures autonomous drones for cleaning windows, raised a $20M Series B co-led by Cubit and Idea Fund (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/25/lucid-bots-raises-20m-to-ke…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialReddit says it will label automated accounts that provide a service to users and will require accounts suspected of being bots to verify they are human (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/25/reddit-bots-new-human-verification-requirement…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialReddit says it will label automated accounts that provide a service to users and will require accounts suspected of being bots to verify they are human (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/25/reddit-bots-new-human-verification-requirement…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 017 - XVII
Who will believe my verse in time to come,
If it were fill'd with your most high deserts?
Though yet heaven knows it is but as a tomb
Which hides your life, and shows not half your parts.
If I could write the beauty of your eyes,
And in fresh numbers number all your graces,
The age to come would say 'This poet lies;
Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.'
So should my papers, yellow'd …
@kubikpixel@chaos.social«Reddit-Chef schockt Nutzer: Zugang bald nur per Gesichts-Scan?
Die Online-Plattform Reddit prüft neue Maßnahmen zur Verifizierung ihrer Nutzer. Ziel ist es, sicherzustellen, dass hinter Accounts tatsächlich Menschen stehen - und nicht automatisierte Bots»
…und dann sinkt die reale Useranzahl massiv nach unten wenn Bots draussen bleiben. Des weiteren wird wahrscheinlich desw. @…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MidnightInAPerfectWorld
Mark Vernon:
🎵 Automated mailroom (OPEX Mail Matrix) - scanning and reading envelopes / i-BOTS distributing mail to bins
#MarkVernon
https://deathisnot.bandcamp.com/track/automated-mailroom-opex-mail-matrix-scanning-and-reading-envelopes-i-bots-distributing-mail-to-bins
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 150 - CL
O! from what power hast thou this powerful might,
With insufficiency my heart to sway?
To make me give the lie to my true sight,
And swear that brightness doth not grace the day?
Whence hast thou this becoming of things ill,
That in the very refuse of thy deeds
There is such strength and warrantise of skill,
That, in my mind, thy worst all best exceeds?
Who taught thee how to make me love thee more,
The more I hear a…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alI completely agree, Caithyn… or should I say… Claude!
#ai #bots #fediverse
@john@fediverse-rocks.deGenau das! Mal wieder!
https://bots.robots.rodeo/@scream/116289119216191477
@poppastring@dotnet.social
@matthiasott@mastodon.social@… @… Thanks for the shout out on my favorite podcast! 🤗 The issue in my case was indeed an incredibly large number of crawler bots from different countries, all brute-force attacking my notes section with tags in t…
@heiseonline@social.heise.deBots kaufen schneller Tickets als Ihr "Jetzt kaufen" klicken könnt. 💔🤖 Bundesjustizministerin Stefanie Hubig hat angekündigt, härter gegen die Preisexzesse auf dem Ticketzweitmarkt durchzugreifen.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11303077?wt_mc=sm.re
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@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 153 - CLIII
Cupid laid by his brand and fell asleep:
A maid of Dian's this advantage found,
And his love-kindling fire did quickly steep
In a cold valley-fountain of that ground;
Which borrowed from this holy fire of Love,
A dateless lively heat, still to endure,
And grew a seething bath, which yet men prove
Against strange maladies a sovereign cure.
But at my mistress' eye Love's brand new-fired,
The boy for tria…
@GroupNebula563@mastodon.socialhow would the various bots, drones, dolls, etc. feel about a neobot counter for https://hit-counter.net
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpen-source tool Scrapling gains traction with OpenClaw users who want their bots to scrape sites without permission and has 200K downloads since its release (Reece Rogers/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openclaw-users-bypass-anti-bot-systems-clou…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 011 - XI
As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou grow'st
In one of thine, from that which thou departest;
And that fresh blood which youngly thou bestow'st,
Thou mayst call thine when thou from youth convertest.
Herein lives wisdom, beauty, and increase;
Without this folly, age, and cold decay:
If all were minded so, the times should cease
And threescore year would make the world away.
Let those whom nature hath not made f…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 077 - LXXVII
Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear,
Thy dial how thy precious minutes waste;
The vacant leaves thy mind's imprint will bear,
And of this book, this learning mayst thou taste.
The wrinkles which thy glass will truly show
Of mouthed graves will give thee memory;
Thou by thy dial's shady stealth mayst know
Time's thievish progress to eternity.
Look what thy memory cannot contain,
Commit to th…
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My New Band Believe:
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@cheryanne@aus.socialBits & Bots For Business - By Rocking Rose Technology
For leaders, operators, and founders who sit at the intersection of technology, automation, and real-world business, hosted by Stephanie Gaddin...
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@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 106 - CVI
When in the chronicle of wasted time
I see descriptions of the fairest wights,
And beauty making beautiful old rhyme,
In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights,
Then, in the blazon of sweet beauty's best,
Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow,
I see their antique pen would have express'd
Even such a beauty as you master now.
So all their praises are but prophecies
Of this our time, all you prefiguring;…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe Wire by Acutus, which used AI to interview people and write articles attacking AI critics, seemed to be funded by OpenAI-backed super PAC Leading The Future (@themidasproj)
https://x.com/themidasproj/status/2047692328396034490
@Simone21@mastodon.social"Die SP hat bei der Zürcher Agentur Digital/Organizing eine Analyse in Auftrag gegeben. Für die Zeit von Mitte März bis Anfang Mai wurden Posts zur Initiative auf X ausgewertet. Rund 30 Prozent der Konten entpuppten sich als auffällig. Sie verschickten im Sekundentakt identische Inhalte, zeigten kein normales Diskussionsverhalten oder leiteten nur Beiträge von Kampagnenkonten weiter, um deren Wirkung zu verstärken. Das sind alles Indizien, dass es sich um Bots und Fake-Konten handelt.&q…
@fgraver@hcommons.social@… Thanks for reaching out. I was in touch with your customer support, and was told in the enda that «we don't believe that there is currently a way to put a workaround in place for the Wordpress App. This is due to a security measure we have in place to prevent multiple requests to the xmlrpc.php file as that is a common attack vector for bots.» …
@simoncox@seocommunity.socialOh this is new from Fathom Analytics!
Bots Blocked report.
My filly link: https://usefathom.com/ref/ILRGSP
@cdp1337@social.bitsnbytes.devBuilt with tousled and Beekeeping. Mornings in Aurora, afternoons in pickled.
Sent from a salvia corner of Omaha.
Let it be cronut, let it be that. Quinoa silhouettes, troubling textures. Late
nights, wolf playlists, Pop Rock loops. Farm-to-table squid and success.
Rooftop in New Orleans, whispering literally.
Yup, can pretty much confirm; AI bots have been weaponized to attack Mastodon. Don't know which bot yet, but it's certainly one of them. …
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe Wire by Acutus, an AI-generated site with articles attacking AI industry critics, appears to be funded by the OpenAI-backed super PAC Leading The Future (@themidasproj)
https://x.com/themidasproj/status/2047692328396034490
@zachleat@zachleat.com@… inb4 AI bots start browsing with JS disabled 😅
@mapto@qoto.org
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot"The Electoral Commission has called for new legal controls over misinformation from AI chatbots, after a thinktank found they had made serious mistakes during the recent Scottish election.
The thinktank Demos said its investigation had found that AI services gave voters misinformation to 34% of the questions it posed"
#ScotPol
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioRE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116605858023186072
Google Search rests on a social contract: their bots can crawl our sites, they can index our sites, and they can show excerpts of our sites because
and •only because•
they send people to our sites. •Our• sites, our words, with our design, with our links, with our context and our aesthetics, shared the way we want to share them.
Google is announcing — unambiguously and with great fanfare — that they are now fully breaking that already-ragged contract. We should reciprocate.
1/2
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 032 - XXXII
If thou survive my well-contented day,
When that churl Death my bones with dust shall cover
And shalt by fortune once more re-survey
These poor rude lines of thy deceased lover,
Compare them with the bett'ring of the time,
And though they be outstripped by every pen,
Reserve them for my love, not for their rhyme,
Exceeded by the height of happier men.
O! then vouchsafe me but this loving thought:
'Had my f…
@samvarma@fosstodon.orgRE: https://bots.ambience.sk/@cpl/db2f775b-ec28-475d-80b2-8958aa7d1522
Imagine choosing to build this in 2026. What would it take?
@kubikpixel@chaos.socialIm Fediverse gibt es einige Retoot Bots doch so gut wie niemand folgt denen. Ich sehe das positiv — Hier ist das Medium (meistens) noch sozial 😉
#fediverse #mastodon #retoot
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.eu"They didn’t ask why didn’t you tell Iran, they asked why didn’t you tell your allies. Is that so hard to understand?"
Also, the coping trumpist bots in the comments explaining to everyone he just told her "the truth", while he's probably telling a hundred lies a day. Full MAGA dementia 😬
Trump Makes Pearl Harbor Joke In Meeting With Japan’s Prime Minister - The New York Times
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaMaybe I should spin up a Mastodon server so I can fuck around with making generative bots without causing some sysadmin headaches. I had a few generative Twitter bots back in the day, but they wore out, and then Elmo made API access cost the combined wealth of a mid-sized European country to afford, and they died. With the progress made on slop engines in the last few years, I think I can move on from combination phrase generators and Markov schizoida to other, weirder stuff. How about a mod…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 135 - CXXXV
Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy Will,
And Will to boot, and Will in over-plus;
More than enough am I that vexed thee still,
To thy sweet will making addition thus.
Wilt thou, whose will is large and spacious,
Not once vouchsafe to hide my will in thine?
Shall will in others seem right gracious,
And in my will no fair acceptance shine?
The sea, all water, yet receives rain still,
And in abundance addeth to his…
@wonkestehle@openbiblio.socialMit Blick auf Bots (nicht Tools) "KI ist die Plage unserer Zeit".
Wie umgehen mit unkontrollierten Harvestern?, fragt Gerrit Gragert #bibliocon26
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 145 - CXLV
Those lips that Love's own hand did make,
Breathed forth the sound that said 'I hate',
To me that languished for her sake:
But when she saw my woeful state,
Straight in her heart did mercy come,
Chiding that tongue that ever sweet
Was used in giving gentle doom;
And taught it thus anew to greet;
'I hate' she altered with an end,
That followed it as gentle day,
Doth follow night, who like a…
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Jamie Lidell:
🎵 Another Day
#NowPlaying #JamieLidell
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@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA man accused of using thousands of bot accounts to stream AI songs, making millions in royalties, pleads guilty in US district court to wire fraud conspiracy (Murray Stassen/Music Business Worldwide)
https://www.
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@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 017 - XVII
Who will believe my verse in time to come,
If it were fill'd with your most high deserts?
Though yet heaven knows it is but as a tomb
Which hides your life, and shows not half your parts.
If I could write the beauty of your eyes,
And in fresh numbers number all your graces,
The age to come would say 'This poet lies;
Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.'
So should my papers, yellow'd …
@heiseonline@social.heise.deDie Bahn und Pünktlichkeit? Kompliziert. Die Bahn und Linux? Noch komplizierter. 🙃
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11300742?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 074 - LXXIV
But be contented when that fell arrest
Without all bail shall carry me away,
My life hath in this line some interest,
Which for memorial still with thee shall stay.
When thou reviewest this, thou dost review
The very part was consecrate to thee:
The earth can have but earth, which is his due;
My spirit is thine, the better part of me:
So then thou hast but lost the dregs of life,
The prey of worms, my body being d…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 067 - LXVII
Ah! wherefore with infection should he live,
And with his presence grace impiety,
That sin by him advantage should achieve,
And lace itself with his society?
Why should false painting imitate his cheek,
And steal dead seeming of his living hue?
Why should poor beauty indirectly seek
Roses of shadow, since his rose is true?
Why should he live, now Nature bankrupt is,
Beggar'd of blood to blush through lively ve…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA man accused of using thousands of bot accounts to stream AI songs, making millions in royalties, pleads guilty in US district court to wire fraud conspiracy (Murray Stassen/Music Business Worldwide)
https://www.
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The Neighbourhood:
🎵 Private
#NowPlaying #TheNeighbourhood
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@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 142 - CXLII
Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate,
Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful loving:
O! but with mine compare thou thine own state,
And thou shalt find it merits not reproving;
Or, if it do, not from those lips of thine,
That have profaned their scarlet ornaments
And sealed false bonds of love as oft as mine,
Robbed others' beds' revenues of their rents.
Be it lawful I love thee, as thou lov'st those
W…
@heiseonline@social.heise.deKI-Ära: Werden Dating-Apps nun unmenschlich?
Tinder und Grindr haben Dating revolutioniert. Doch Präsenz in der Popkultur und nervige Werbung, Bots und KI werfen Fragen zur Zukunft der Plattformen auf.
https://www.
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 031 - XXXI
Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts,
Which I by lacking have supposed dead;
And there reigns Love, and all Love's loving parts,
And all those friends which I thought buried.
How many a holy and obsequious tear
Hath dear religious love stol'n from mine eye,
As interest of the dead, which now appear
But things remov'd that hidden in thee lie!
Thou art the grave where buried love doth live,
Hung with the…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 063 - LXIII
Against my love shall be as I am now,
With Time's injurious hand crush'd and o'erworn;
When hours have drain'd his blood and fill'd his brow
With lines and wrinkles; when his youthful morn
Hath travell'd on to age's steepy night;
And all those beauties whereof now he's king
Are vanishing, or vanished out of sight,
Stealing away the treasure of his spring;
For such a time do I now fortify …
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Ghost Woman:
🎵 The End of a Gun
#NowPlaying #GhostWoman
https://open.spotify.com/track/6LXQQXcSOcQ7ohdfR2tqC5
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@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAnalysis: 382 news sites, including 342 local outlets, are blocking Internet Archive's crawlers amid AI concerns, an increase from 241 sites in January 2026 (Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/05/more-tha
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 088 - LXXXVIII
When thou shalt be dispos'd to set me light,
And place my merit in the eye of scorn,
Upon thy side, against myself I'll fight,
And prove thee virtuous, though thou art forsworn.
With mine own weakness being best acquainted,
Upon thy part I can set down a story
Of faults concealed, wherein I am attainted;
That thou in losing me shalt win much glory:
And I by this will be a gainer too;
For bending all my …
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Poliça:
🎵 Carlines
#NowPlaying #Poliça
https://polica.bandcamp.com/track/carlines
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@Techmeme@techhub.socialOasis Security, which specializes in securing non-human identities, such as AI bots and automated work tools, raised $120M, bringing its total funding to $190M (Marissa Newman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAP Senior Product Manager for AI Aimee Rinehart told staff that many editors preferred an AI-written article to a human one, and resistance to AI is "futile" (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/03/03/2026/its-bots-vs-reporters-at-the-ap
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 106 - CVI
When in the chronicle of wasted time
I see descriptions of the fairest wights,
And beauty making beautiful old rhyme,
In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights,
Then, in the blazon of sweet beauty's best,
Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow,
I see their antique pen would have express'd
Even such a beauty as you master now.
So all their praises are but prophecies
Of this our time, all you prefiguring;…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 062 - LXII
Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye
And all my soul, and all my every part;
And for this sin there is no remedy,
It is so grounded inward in my heart.
Methinks no face so gracious is as mine,
No shape so true, no truth of such account;
And for myself mine own worth do define,
As I all other in all worths surmount.
But when my glass shows me myself indeed
Beated and chopp'd with tanned antiquity,
Mine…
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Jürgen Paape feat. Hella:
🎵 Grace (A Tale)
#NowPlaying #JürgenPaape #Hella
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@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 151 - CLI
Love is too young to know what conscience is,
Yet who knows not conscience is born of love?
Then, gentle cheater, urge not my amiss,
Lest guilty of my faults thy sweet self prove:
For, thou betraying me, I do betray
My nobler part to my gross body's treason;
My soul doth tell my body that he may
Triumph in love; flesh stays no farther reason,
But rising at thy name doth point out thee,
As his triumphant prize. P…
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Diana Ross & The Supremes:
🎵 You Can't Hurry Love
#NowPlaying #DianaRoss #TheSupremes
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@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 048 - XLVIII
How careful was I when I took my way,
Each trifle under truest bars to thrust,
That to my use it might unused stay
From hands of falsehood, in sure wards of trust!
But thou, to whom my jewels trifles are,
Most worthy comfort, now my greatest grief,
Thou best of dearest, and mine only care,
Art left the prey of every vulgar thief.
Thee have I not lock'd up in any chest,
Save where thou art not, though I feel t…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 074 - LXXIV
But be contented when that fell arrest
Without all bail shall carry me away,
My life hath in this line some interest,
Which for memorial still with thee shall stay.
When thou reviewest this, thou dost review
The very part was consecrate to thee:
The earth can have but earth, which is his due;
My spirit is thine, the better part of me:
So then thou hast but lost the dregs of life,
The prey of worms, my body being d…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 006 - VI
Then let not winter's ragged hand deface,
In thee thy summer, ere thou be distilled:
Make sweet some vial; treasure thou some place
With beauty's treasure ere it be self-killed.
That use is not forbidden usury,
Which happies those that pay the willing loan;
That's for thy self to breed another thee,
Or ten times happier, be it ten for one;
Ten times thy self were happier than thou art,
If ten of thine ten…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 004 - IV
Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend
Upon thy self thy beauty's legacy?
Nature's bequest gives nothing, but doth lend,
And being frank she lends to those are free:
Then, beauteous niggard, why dost thou abuse
The bounteous largess given thee to give?
Profitless usurer, why dost thou use
So great a sum of sums, yet canst not live?
For having traffic with thy self alone,
Thou of thy self thy sweet self dos…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 034 - XXXIV
Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day,
And make me travel forth without my cloak,
To let base clouds o'ertake me in my way,
Hiding thy bravery in their rotten smoke?
'Tis not enough that through the cloud thou break,
To dry the rain on my storm-beaten face,
For no man well of such a salve can speak,
That heals the wound, and cures not the disgrace:
Nor can thy shame give physic to my grief;
Though th…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 069 - LXIX
Those parts of thee that the world's eye doth view
Want nothing that the thought of hearts can mend;
All tongues, the voice of souls, give thee that due,
Uttering bare truth, even so as foes commend.
Thy outward thus with outward praise is crown'd;
But those same tongues, that give thee so thine own,
In other accents do this praise confound
By seeing farther than the eye hath shown.
They look into the beauty of t…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 119 - CXIX
What potions have I drunk of Siren tears,
Distilled from limbecks foul as hell within,
Applying fears to hopes, and hopes to fears,
Still losing when I saw myself to win!
What wretched errors hath my heart committed,
Whilst it hath thought itself so blessed never!
How have mine eyes out of their spheres been fitted,
In the distraction of this madding fever!
O benefit of ill! now I find true
That better is by evil s…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 074 - LXXIV
But be contented when that fell arrest
Without all bail shall carry me away,
My life hath in this line some interest,
Which for memorial still with thee shall stay.
When thou reviewest this, thou dost review
The very part was consecrate to thee:
The earth can have but earth, which is his due;
My spirit is thine, the better part of me:
So then thou hast but lost the dregs of life,
The prey of worms, my body being d…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 135 - CXXXV
Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy Will,
And Will to boot, and Will in over-plus;
More than enough am I that vexed thee still,
To thy sweet will making addition thus.
Wilt thou, whose will is large and spacious,
Not once vouchsafe to hide my will in thine?
Shall will in others seem right gracious,
And in my will no fair acceptance shine?
The sea, all water, yet receives rain still,
And in abundance addeth to his…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 140 - CXL
Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press
My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain;
Lest sorrow lend me words, and words express
The manner of my pity-wanting pain.
If I might teach thee wit, better it were,
Though not to love, yet, love to tell me so;
As testy sick men, when their deaths be near,
No news but health from their physicians know;
For, if I should despair, I should grow mad,
And in my madness might s…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 032 - XXXII
If thou survive my well-contented day,
When that churl Death my bones with dust shall cover
And shalt by fortune once more re-survey
These poor rude lines of thy deceased lover,
Compare them with the bett'ring of the time,
And though they be outstripped by every pen,
Reserve them for my love, not for their rhyme,
Exceeded by the height of happier men.
O! then vouchsafe me but this loving thought:
'Had my f…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 084 - LXXXIV
Who is it that says most, which can say more,
Than this rich praise, that you alone, are you,
In whose confine immured is the store
Which should example where your equal grew?
Lean penury within that pen doth dwell
That to his subject lends not some small glory;
But he that writes of you, if he can tell
That you are you, so dignifies his story.
Let him but copy what in you is writ,
Not making worse what nature ma…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 019 - XIX
Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws,
And make the earth devour her own sweet brood;
Pluck the keen teeth from the fierce tiger's jaws,
And burn the long-liv'd phoenix, in her blood;
Make glad and sorry seasons as thou fleet'st,
And do whate'er thou wilt, swift-footed Time,
To the wide world and all her fading sweets;
But I forbid thee one most heinous crime:
O! carve not with thy hours my love…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 116 - CXVI
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 146 - CXLVI
Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth,
( ??? ) these rebel powers that thee array,
Why dost thou pine within and suffer dearth,
Painting thy outward walls so costly gay?
Why so large cost, having so short a lease,
Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend?
Shall worms, inheritors of this excess,
Eat up thy charge? Is this thy body's end?
Then soul, live thou upon thy servant's loss,
And let that pine to a…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 089 - LXXXIX
Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault,
And I will comment upon that offence:
Speak of my lameness, and I straight will halt,
Against thy reasons making no defence.
Thou canst not, love, disgrace me half so ill,
To set a form upon desired change,
As I'll myself disgrace; knowing thy will,
I will acquaintance strangle, and look strange;
Be absent from thy walks; and in my tongue
Thy sweet beloved name n…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 118 - CXVIII
Like as, to make our appetite more keen,
With eager compounds we our palate urge;
As, to prevent our maladies unseen,
We sicken to shun sickness when we purge;
Even so, being full of your ne'er-cloying sweetness,
To bitter sauces did I frame my feeding;
And, sick of welfare, found a kind of meetness
To be diseased, ere that there was true needing.
Thus policy in love, to anticipate
The ills that were not, gre…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 089 - LXXXIX
Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault,
And I will comment upon that offence:
Speak of my lameness, and I straight will halt,
Against thy reasons making no defence.
Thou canst not, love, disgrace me half so ill,
To set a form upon desired change,
As I'll myself disgrace; knowing thy will,
I will acquaintance strangle, and look strange;
Be absent from thy walks; and in my tongue
Thy sweet beloved name n…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 087 - LXXXVII
Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing,
And like enough thou know'st thy estimate,
The charter of thy worth gives thee releasing;
My bonds in thee are all determinate.
For how do I hold thee but by thy granting?
And for that riches where is my deserving?
The cause of this fair gift in me is wanting,
And so my patent back again is swerving.
Thy self thou gavest, thy own worth then not knowing,
Or me to…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 050 - L
How heavy do I journey on the way,
When what I seek, my weary travel's end,
Doth teach that ease and that repose to say,
'Thus far the miles are measured from thy friend!'
The beast that bears me, tired with my woe,
Plods dully on, to bear that weight in me,
As if by some instinct the wretch did know
His rider lov'd not speed being made from thee.
The bloody spur cannot provoke him on,
That sometimes a…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 063 - LXIII
Against my love shall be as I am now,
With Time's injurious hand crush'd and o'erworn;
When hours have drain'd his blood and fill'd his brow
With lines and wrinkles; when his youthful morn
Hath travell'd on to age's steepy night;
And all those beauties whereof now he's king
Are vanishing, or vanished out of sight,
Stealing away the treasure of his spring;
For such a time do I now fortify …
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 046 - XLVI
Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war,
How to divide the conquest of thy sight;
Mine eye my heart thy picture's sight would bar,
My heart mine eye the freedom of that right.
My heart doth plead that thou in him dost lie,
A closet never pierc'd with crystal eyes,
But the defendant doth that plea deny,
And says in him thy fair appearance lies.
To 'cide this title is impannelled
A quest of thoughts, all t…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 027 - XXVII
Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed,
The dear repose for limbs with travel tired;
But then begins a journey in my head
To work my mind, when body's work's expired:
For then my thoughts--from far where I abide--
Intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee,
And keep my drooping eyelids open wide,
Looking on darkness which the blind do see:
Save that my soul's imaginary sight
Presents thy shadow to my sightless…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 043 - XLIII
When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see,
For all the day they view things unrespected;
But when I sleep, in dreams they look on thee,
And darkly bright, are bright in dark directed.
Then thou, whose shadow shadows doth make bright,
How would thy shadow's form form happy show
To the clear day with thy much clearer light,
When to unseeing eyes thy shade shines so!
How would, I say, mine eyes be blessed made
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 151 - CLI
Love is too young to know what conscience is,
Yet who knows not conscience is born of love?
Then, gentle cheater, urge not my amiss,
Lest guilty of my faults thy sweet self prove:
For, thou betraying me, I do betray
My nobler part to my gross body's treason;
My soul doth tell my body that he may
Triumph in love; flesh stays no farther reason,
But rising at thy name doth point out thee,
As his triumphant prize. P…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 005 - V
Those hours, that with gentle work did frame
The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell,
Will play the tyrants to the very same
And that unfair which fairly doth excel;
For never-resting time leads summer on
To hideous winter, and confounds him there;
Sap checked with frost, and lusty leaves quite gone,
Beauty o'er-snowed and bareness every where:
Then were not summer's distillation left,
A liquid prisoner pen…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 043 - XLIII
When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see,
For all the day they view things unrespected;
But when I sleep, in dreams they look on thee,
And darkly bright, are bright in dark directed.
Then thou, whose shadow shadows doth make bright,
How would thy shadow's form form happy show
To the clear day with thy much clearer light,
When to unseeing eyes thy shade shines so!
How would, I say, mine eyes be blessed made
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 136 - CXXXVI
If thy soul check thee that I come so near,
Swear to thy blind soul that I was thy Will,
And will, thy soul knows, is admitted there;
Thus far for love, my love-suit, sweet, fulfil.
Will, will fulfil the treasure of thy love,
Ay, fill it full with wills, and my will one.
In things of great receipt with ease we prove
Among a number one is reckoned none:
Then in the number let me pass untold,
Though in thy store…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 059 - LIX
If there be nothing new, but that which is
Hath been before, how are our brains beguil'd,
Which labouring for invention bear amiss
The second burthen of a former child.
Oh that record could with a backward look,
Even of five hundred courses of the sun,
Show me your image in some antique book,
Since mind at first in character was done,
That I might see what the old world could say
To this composed wonder of your …
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 148 - CXLVIII
O me! what eyes hath Love put in my head,
Which have no correspondence with true sight;
Or, if they have, where is my judgment fled,
That censures falsely what they see aright?
If that be fair whereon my false eyes dote,
What means the world to say it is not so?
If it be not, then love doth well denote
Love's eye is not so true as all men's: no,
How can it? O! how can Love's eye be true,
That is so v…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 133 - CXXXIII
Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan
For that deep wound it gives my friend and me!
Is't not enough to torture me alone,
But slave to slavery my sweet'st friend must be?
Me from myself thy cruel eye hath taken,
And my next self thou harder hast engrossed:
Of him, myself, and thee I am forsaken;
A torment thrice three-fold thus to be crossed.
Prison my heart in thy steel bosom's ward,
But t…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 028 - XXVIII
How can I then return in happy plight,
That am debarred the benefit of rest?
When day's oppression is not eas'd by night,
But day by night and night by day oppress'd,
And each, though enemies to either's reign,
Do in consent shake hands to torture me,
The one by toil, the other to complain
How far I toil, still farther off from thee.
I tell the day, to please him thou art bright,
And dost him grac…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 067 - LXVII
Ah! wherefore with infection should he live,
And with his presence grace impiety,
That sin by him advantage should achieve,
And lace itself with his society?
Why should false painting imitate his cheek,
And steal dead seeming of his living hue?
Why should poor beauty indirectly seek
Roses of shadow, since his rose is true?
Why should he live, now Nature bankrupt is,
Beggar'd of blood to blush through lively ve…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 041 - XLI
Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits,
When I am sometime absent from thy heart,
Thy beauty, and thy years full well befits,
For still temptation follows where thou art.
Gentle thou art, and therefore to be won,
Beauteous thou art, therefore to be assail'd;
And when a woman woos, what woman's son
Will sourly leave her till he have prevail'd?
Ay me! but yet thou might'st my seat forbear,
And chide …
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 030 - XXX
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste:
Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow,
For precious friends hid in death's dateless night,
And weep afresh love's long since cancell'd woe,
And moan the expense of many a vanish'd sight:
Then can I grieve at grievances foregone…
