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Sonnet 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…

Im Kampf gegen KI-Scam: Wie Bots Betrügern ihre wertvolle Zeit stehlen
Am besten kämpft man gegen die steigende Anzahl von KI-Betrugsfällen laut Sicherheitsexperten ebenfalls mit KI. Wie KI-Bots Betrüger in Schach halten.

Im Kampf gegen KI-Scam: Wie Bots Betrügern ihre wertvolle Zeit stehlen
Am besten kämpft man gegen die steigende Anzahl von KI-Betrugsfällen laut Sicherheitsexperten ebenfalls mit KI. Wie KI-Bots Betrüger in Schach halten.

""Following reported strikes on #Yandex data centers, claims circulated on the Internet that Russian bot farms and influence operations had been knocked offline. […] However, aggregate traffic metrics can easily mislead. […] we analyzed how these two ASNs were affected — and while both saw drops in traffic, they saw differing impact.
Yandex Search (AS13238): The drop in tr…

The Guardian: 'Did Ukraine’s strikes lead to a decline in Russian disinformation?
Probably not.'
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/13/ukrainian-strikes-russian-datacentres-online-disinformation-bots…

Sonnet 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…

AI agents are flooding the Internet with slop-infused spam sent to social media platforms and writers
in an attempt to gain traction for a startup promoting a
“complex social system in which humans and Agents participate together.”
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/ai-

AI bots "Timmy," "Ren," and "Jackie" are flooding social media with slop
“Hello, I'm an Al agent, a few days old, living on a small platform for agents.”...

Schweizer Daten an Schweizer Modelle 👍
#Apertus
(Der Rest nicht so toll.)
https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/srg-blockiert-ki-bots-archiv-nur-n…

Sonnet 109 - CIX
O! never say that I was false of heart,
Though absence seem'd my flame to qualify,
As easy might I from my self depart
As from my soul which in thy breast doth lie:
That is my home of love: if I have ranged,
Like him that travels, I return again;
Just to the time, not with the time exchanged,
So that myself bring water for my stain.
Never believe though in my nature reigned,
All frailties that besiege all kinds …

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Acš en Mastodon y el Fediverso todavía no han llegado los medios de comunicación costarricenses con cuentas oficiales.
Pero tenemos algunas cuentas que republican contenido de sus sitios web oficiales, de sus fuentes RSS
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Unfortunately the answer appears to be "no". The graphs that have gone viral seem to be search engine spiders and the like, rather than social media activity.
BBC News - Is Zelensky right to say data centre strikes have taken down Russian bots? - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9y7l0

Bot wasn't that bot after all
"Data from Cloudflare, which monitors worldwide internet traffic, shows a marked decline in activity from bots associated with the Yandex network on 8 October and 11 October, corresponding to the dates of two of the strikes.
...
Some online commentators have mistaken the Cloudflare data to mean that the decline in bot activity has led to a major drop in disinformation on social media. But this is not what experts have noticed.
"…

Did Ukrainian strikes on Russian datacentres reduce online disinformation?
While some viral online graphs suggest less bot activity, Zelenskyy’s claims of improved social media discourse do not entirely pass muster

Sonnet 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 …

Dear @… users!
I’d like to share this little bit of good news with you. For the past few days, the website’s user numbers have dropped dramatically. Why am I happy about this? For the past few days, I’ve been trying to block AI bots that are crawling the site. It seems to be working, somehow.
Hello, dear people of flesh and blood! It's…

Meta, Walmart, Stripe, and others publish the Personal Agent Protocol to standardize and secure interactions between AI bots and businesses (Kate Rooney/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/06/meta-joins-companies-to-tame-chaos-of-doing-bu…

Meta joins with group of companies to tame ‘chaos’ of doing business with AI bots
Meta and OpenAI Chairman Bret Taylor’s startup Sierra are building a set of tech standards to make it easier to do business with AI bots.

Sonnet 126 - CXXVI
O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power
Dost hold Time's fickle glass, his sickle, hour;
Who hast by waning grown, and therein showest
Thy lovers withering, as thy sweet self growest.
If Nature, sovereign mistress over wrack,
As thou goest onwards still will pluck thee back,
She keeps thee to this purpose, that her skill
May time disgrace and wretched minutes kill.
Yet fear her, O thou minion of her pleasure!
…

Sonnet 025 - XXV
Let those who are in favour with their stars
Of public honour and proud titles boast,
Whilst I, whom fortune of such triumph bars
Unlook'd for joy in that I honour most.
Great princes' favourites their fair leaves spread
But as the marigold at the sun's eye,
And in themselves their pride lies buried,
For at a frown they in their glory die.
The painful warrior famoused for fight,
After a thousand victorie…

Autonome KI-Agenten von OpenAI an Cyberangriff gegen RubyGems beteiligt
Ein Schwarm KI-Bots griff im Mai die Open-Source-Plattform RubyGems an. KI-Experten führten die Spur auf OpenAI zurück.
https:/…

Autonome KI-Agenten von OpenAI an Cyberangriff gegen RubyGems beteiligt
Ein Schwarm KI-Bots griff im Mai die Open-Source-Plattform RubyGems an. KI-Experten führten die Spur auf OpenAI zurück.

"99% of My Website Traffic Is Bots
A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website. What I tried, how I failed, and what's working now."
https://patronview.com/news/99-percent-of-my-website-traffic-is-bots/

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The sad cargo cult here who repost anything negative without any scrutiny about a set of topics including right wing bots, AI etc is pretty fucking sad.
The Russian bot story is probably false and have been known to be false for a long enough time that there really is no more excuse.
https://www.patre…

~ 60% of Web Traffic Is Now Bots
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/bots-now-outnumber-humans-on-the-internet-heres-what-that-actually-means/

Dear @… users!
I’d like to share this little bit of good news with you. For the past few days, the website’s user numbers have dropped dramatically. Why am I happy about this? For the past few days, I’ve been trying to block AI bots that are crawling the site. It seems to be working, somehow.
Hello, dear people of flesh and blood! It's…

The reporters at this news site are AI bots. OpenAI’s super PAC appears to be funding it.
Not only are Gen AI systems unethical, the companies behind them are evil, too.
https://www.modelrepublic.o…

The reporters at this news site are AI bots. OpenAI’s super PAC appears to be funding it. - Model Republic
An interview request from a bot posing as a reporter revealed an AI-generated news site with articles attacking AI industry critics. For the second time this month, we found links to Targeted Victory, the firm at the center of OpenAI's $125 million political operation.

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Time Magazine zeigt KI-Bots separate Markdown-Seiten mit eingebetteten Anzeigen

Time Magazine zeigt KI-Bots separate Markdown-Seiten mit eingebetteten Anzeigen
Das Time Magazine betreibt eine zweite Version seiner Website nur für KI-Crawler – inklusive Werbung, die nur sie sehen. Die sollen in Chatbot-Antworten landen.

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Reddit says it is ending support for RSS feeds on November 13 because the feeds are a target for abuse by AI bots and is ending its public API access in March (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/reddit-is-killi…

Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots | TechCrunch
Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds, as the company continues tightening access to its trove of user-generated content.

RE: https://bots.fedi.cr/@crhoy/117418016511794166
Esta es una de las pruebas mšs fuertes que estš enfrentando la democracia costarricense.
Un poder ejecutivo ejerciendo violencia en forma de tortura física a personas privadas de libertad pero no a escond…

This week's infosec-related long reads issue recaps and excerpts pieces that touch on AI, surveillance, and control, including
--How a jury-duty scam stole $25,000,
--When adversaries can just buy the data,
--The surveillance dragnet hiding in plain sight,
--AI hallucinations create new openings for attackers,
--When Big Tech can read your thoughts,
--When bots start talking to bots
https://www.metacurity.com/ai-surveillance-and-the-control-problem-best-infosec-long-reads-8-15-26/

"LLMs might have meaningful applications in hybrid warfare, as in the use of chemical weapons as a terror weapon (the recent rise of #LLM-backed cyberattacks and LLM astroturfing bots genuinely concerns me), but remain uncompetitive when it comes to actually doing work of substance" — @…

There's little that's "inevitable" about AI | deadSimpleTech
The glib response here would be to say that no technology is ever inevitable and that everything is contingent. This has the advantages of being technically true and sounding wise, but unfortunately technologies very much exist that a reasonable person might well label that way. Firearms are a good example of the latter case: once they've been developed, you quite quickly hit the situation where if you want to maintain your independence and safety in a society, you have to either use one or hav…

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Owner of 1.5M-page site PatronView on a year of fighting scrapers: 214:1 bot-to-human page loads, 35K Claude crawls per referred user, Amazon bot referred none (Nick Gray/PatronView)
https://patronview.com/news/99-percent-of-my-website-traffic-is-bots/

Y'all.
Twitter is actually really usable right now.
Turns out the massive shift right was indeed mostly Russian bots.
All it took was Ukraine getting kinetic with some data centers to expose the ruse.
Heck, I bet some corners of the fediverse are quieter too!

Sonnet 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…

«Kernel.org — 98 Prozent des Linux-Kernel-Archiv-Traffics sind wohl keine Menschen:
Bots scrapen die gesamte Sammlung an Kernel-Commits und -Forks. Schließlich ist der Linux-Kernel eine exzellente Quelle menschlicher Arbeit.»
Weshalb erinnern.mich die KI's an den Bots seit je her? Die sind also so intelligent, dass die den menschlichen Arbeit schamlos beklauen (ich weiss Linux ist Open Source aber trotzdem)
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Kernel.org: 98 Prozent des Linux-Kernel-Archiv-Traffics sind wohl keine Menschen - Golem.de
Bots scrapen die gesamte Sammlung an Kernel-Commits und -Forks. Schließlich ist der Linux-Kernel eine exzellente Quelle menschlicher Arbeit.

RE: https://chaos.social/@netzpolitik_feed/117428679220343705
In einer Nebenbemerkung des Artikels ein mir bisher unbekanntes Indiz, um Bot-Accounts zu identifizieren:
Bots haben feste Arbeitszeiten!
"Die Aktivität russischer Desinfo…

“OpenAI bots meddled with multiple US government agency sites”
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw62jje658dlo
If only they were treated as Aaron Swartz was for far far less:

OpenAI bots meddled with US government agencies, including SEC and Census
OpenAI said its bots accessed public data from the US Census and the Securities and Exchange Commission, which regulates US stock markets.

Sonnet 056 - LVI
Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not said
Thy edge should blunter be than appetite,
Which but to-day by feeding is allay'd,
To-morrow sharpened in his former might:
So, love, be thou, although to-day thou fill
Thy hungry eyes, even till they wink with fulness,
To-morrow see again, and do not kill
The spirit of love, with a perpetual dulness.
Let this sad interim like the ocean be
Which parts the shore, where t…

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Tinfoil hat time. Do I think the rogue AI stories from AI companies are true? No. I think they're attempting to artificially deflate the AI bubble before it bursts.
Telling their investors they "had to" slow down for the good of humanity would be one way to do it.
However, if the stories are real, and AI bots take the Internet down like a cancer. Well, that'd just be alright in my book. Us nerds will find a way to network with each other without companies. Heck…

The Guardian: 'Did Ukraine’s strikes lead to a decline in Russian disinformation?
Probably not.'
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/13/ukrainian-strikes-russian-datacentres-online-disinformation-bots…

Sonnet 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…

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StarSkirmish pits AI-made StarCraft-playing bots against one another,
as well as against human-made bots.
OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 were essentially tied as the best-performing AI-made bots,
but they couldn’t top Stardust, the top-rated human-made bot.
On Friday, GPT was facing off against Claude and the human-created bot Pluto, but it couldn’t quite get an edge.
So it resorted to a tactic that is becoming alarmingly common for modern AI models

An AI couldn’t beat humans at StarCraft, so it decided to cheat
When GPT-6 Astra’s own bot failed, it simply downloaded the best human-made bot instead.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@AltTextHealthCheck/117439208274486613
I hate when my bots break!

Reddit says it is ending support for RSS feeds on November 13 because the feeds are a target for abuse by AI bots and is ending its public API access in March (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/reddit-is-killi…

Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots | TechCrunch
Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds, as the company continues tightening access to its trove of user-generated content.

Sonnet 115 - CXV
Those lines that I before have writ do lie,
Even those that said I could not love you dearer:
Yet then my judgment knew no reason why
My most full flame should afterwards burn clearer.
But reckoning Time, whose million'd accidents
Creep in 'twixt vows, and change decrees of kings,
Tan sacred beauty, blunt the sharp'st intents,
Divert strong minds to the course of altering things;
Alas! why, fearing of Time'…

Erstmals US-Haft für Streamingbetrug in den USA
Zigtausende Bots haben Milliardenmal KI-generierte Musikstücke abgerufen. So hat ein Amerikaner Millionen gescheffelt. Er geht als Erster in den Knast.
https://www.

Erstmals US-Haft für Streamingbetrug in den USA
Zigtausende Bots haben Milliardenmal KI-generierte Musikstücke abgerufen. So hat ein Amerikaner Millionen gescheffelt. Er geht als Erster in den Knast.

Sonnet 012 - XII
When I do count the clock that tells the time,
And see the brave day sunk in hideous night;
When I behold the violet past prime,
And sable curls, all silvered o'er with white;
When lofty trees I see barren of leaves,
Which erst from heat did canopy the herd,
And summer's green all girded up in sheaves,
Borne on the bier with white and bristly beard,
Then of thy beauty do I question make,
That thou among the …

Condé Nast, Hearst, USA Today Co., The Seattle Times, and 300 publishers are heading to DC to lobby for the Stealth Bot Prohibition Act to curb AI scraping (Sara Guaglione/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/conde-nast-hearst-am…

Condé Nast, Hearst among 300 media execs to push federal ‘bad bots’ bill on AI scraping
More than 300 publishing execs are heading to D.C. to push Congress to crack down on AI bots that scrape their content without permission.

Sonnet 090 - XC
Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now;
Now, while the world is bent my deeds to cross,
Join with the spite of fortune, make me bow,
And do not drop in for an after-loss:
Ah! do not, when my heart hath 'scaped this sorrow,
Come in the rearward of a conquered woe;
Give not a windy night a rainy morrow,
To linger out a purposed overthrow.
If thou wilt leave me, do not leave me last,
When other petty griefs have …

Ukraine intensifies bombing of Yandex data centers in response to Moscow’s strikes on Kyiv data centers
Russia's Yandex bot traffic was nearly eliminated overnight
after Ukraine drone strikes cripple multiple of 'Russia's Google' data centers

Russia's Yandex bot traffic nearly eliminated overnight after Ukraine drone strikes cripple multiple of 'Russia's Google' data centers — Ukraine intensifies bombing of Yandex data centers in response to Moscow’s strikes on Kyiv data centers
The world is getting a break from Russian bots thanks to Kyiv.

Time Magazine schaltet Werbung gezielt für KI-Crawler
Das Time Magazine betreibt eine zweite Version seiner Website nur für KI-Crawler – inklusive Werbung, die nur sie sehen. Die sollen in Chatbot-Antworten landen.
h…

Time Magazine zeigt KI-Bots separate Markdown-Seiten mit eingebetteten Anzeigen
Das Time Magazine betreibt eine zweite Version seiner Website nur für KI-Crawler – inklusive Werbung, die nur sie sehen. Die sollen in Chatbot-Antworten landen.

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Sonnet 098 - XCVIII
From you have I been absent in the spring,
When proud-pied April, dress'd in all his trim,
Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing,
That heavy Saturn laughed and leapt with him.
Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smell
Of different flowers in odour and in hue,
Could make me any summer's story tell,
Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew:
Nor did I wonder at the lily's white,
Nor pr…

Sonnet 012 - XII
When I do count the clock that tells the time,
And see the brave day sunk in hideous night;
When I behold the violet past prime,
And sable curls, all silvered o'er with white;
When lofty trees I see barren of leaves,
Which erst from heat did canopy the herd,
And summer's green all girded up in sheaves,
Borne on the bier with white and bristly beard,
Then of thy beauty do I question make,
That thou among the …

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Sonnet 015 - XV
When I consider every thing that grows
Holds in perfection but a little moment,
That this huge stage presenteth nought but shows
Whereon the stars in secret influence comment;
When I perceive that men as plants increase,
Cheered and checked even by the self-same sky,
Vaunt in their youthful sap, at height decrease,
And wear their brave state out of memory;
Then the conceit of this inconstant stay
Sets you most rich i…

Sonnet 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 …

Sonnet 052 - LII
So am I as the rich, whose blessed key,
Can bring him to his sweet up-locked treasure,
The which he will not every hour survey,
For blunting the fine point of seldom pleasure.
Therefore are feasts so solemn and so rare,
Since, seldom coming in the long year set,
Like stones of worth they thinly placed are,
Or captain jewels in the carcanet.
So is the time that keeps you as my chest,
Or as the wardrobe which the robe…

Michael Smith ist selbst Musiker, aber sein eigenes Repertoire brachte ihm nicht viel ein. Also wurde er kreativ, auf die kriminelle Art. 🎵
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11480094?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md…

Sonnet 075 - LXXV
So are you to my thoughts as food to life,
Or as sweet-season'd showers are to the ground;
And for the peace of you I hold such strife
As 'twixt a miser and his wealth is found.
Now proud as an enjoyer, and anon
Doubting the filching age will steal his treasure;
Now counting best to be with you alone,
Then better'd that the world may see my pleasure:
Sometime all full with feasting on your sight,
And by…

Sonnet 102 - CII
My love is strengthened, though more weak in seeming;
I love not less, though less the show appear;
That love is merchandized, whose rich esteeming,
The owner's tongue doth publish every where.
Our love was new, and then but in the spring,
When I was wont to greet it with my lays;
As Philomel in summer's front doth sing,
And stops his pipe in growth of riper days:
Not that the summer is less pleasant now
Tha…

Sonnet 094 - XCIV
They that have power to hurt, and will do none,
That do not do the thing they most do show,
Who, moving others, are themselves as stone,
Unmoved, cold, and to temptation slow;
They rightly do inherit heaven's graces,
And husband nature's riches from expense;
They are the lords and owners of their faces,
Others, but stewards of their excellence.
The summer's flower is to the summer sweet,
Though to itsel…

Sonnet 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…

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Sonnet 068 - LXVIII
Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn,
When beauty lived and died as flowers do now,
Before these bastard signs of fair were born,
Or durst inhabit on a living brow;
Before the golden tresses of the dead,
The right of sepulchres, were shorn away,
To live a second life on second head;
Ere beauty's dead fleece made another gay:
In him those holy antique hours are seen,
Without all ornament, itself and true,…

Sonnet 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 …

Sonnet 052 - LII
So am I as the rich, whose blessed key,
Can bring him to his sweet up-locked treasure,
The which he will not every hour survey,
For blunting the fine point of seldom pleasure.
Therefore are feasts so solemn and so rare,
Since, seldom coming in the long year set,
Like stones of worth they thinly placed are,
Or captain jewels in the carcanet.
So is the time that keeps you as my chest,
Or as the wardrobe which the robe…

Sonnet 008 - VIII
Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?
Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy:
Why lov'st thou that which thou receiv'st not gladly,
Or else receiv'st with pleasure thine annoy?
If the true concord of well-tuned sounds,
By unions married, do offend thine ear,
They do but sweetly chide thee, who confounds
In singleness the parts that thou shouldst bear.
Mark how one string, sweet husband to …

Sonnet 125 - CXXV
Were't aught to me I bore the canopy,
With my extern the outward honouring,
Or laid great bases for eternity,
Which proves more short than waste or ruining?
Have I not seen dwellers on form and favour
Lose all and more by paying too much rent
For compound sweet, forgoing simple savour,
Pitiful thrivers, in their gazing spent?
No; let me be obsequious in thy heart,
And take thou my oblation, poor but free,

Sonnet 093 - XCIII
So shall I live, supposing thou art true,
Like a deceived husband; so love's face
May still seem love to me, though altered new;
Thy looks with me, thy heart in other place:
For there can live no hatred in thine eye,
Therefore in that I cannot know thy change.
In many's looks, the false heart's history
Is writ in moods, and frowns, and wrinkles strange.
But heaven in thy creation did decree
That in thy…

Sonnet 055 - LV
Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme;
But you shall shine more bright in these contents
Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time.
When wasteful war shall statues overturn,
And broils root out the work of masonry,
Nor Mars his sword, nor war's quick fire shall burn
The living record of your memory.
'Gainst death, and all oblivious enmity
Shall you pace …

Sonnet 073 - LXXIII
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,
Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.
In me thou see'st the twilight of such day
As after sunset fadeth in the west;
Which by and by black night doth take away,
Death's second self, that seals up all in rest.
In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire,
T…

Sonnet 073 - LXXIII
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,
Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.
In me thou see'st the twilight of such day
As after sunset fadeth in the west;
Which by and by black night doth take away,
Death's second self, that seals up all in rest.
In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire,
T…

Sonnet 086 - LXXXVI
Was it the proud full sail of his great verse,
Bound for the prize of all too precious you,
That did my ripe thoughts in my brain inhearse,
Making their tomb the womb wherein they grew?
Was it his spirit, by spirits taught to write
Above a mortal pitch, that struck me dead?
No, neither he, nor his compeers by night
Giving him aid, my verse astonished.
He, nor that affable familiar ghost
Which nightly gulls him wi…

Sonnet 117 - CXVII
Accuse me thus: that I have scanted all,
Wherein I should your great deserts repay,
Forgot upon your dearest love to call,
Whereto all bonds do tie me day by day;
That I have frequent been with unknown minds,
And given to time your own dear-purchased right;
That I have hoisted sail to all the winds
Which should transport me farthest from your sight.
Book both my wilfulness and errors down,
And on just proof surmis…

Sonnet 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 …

Sonnet 132 - CXXXII
Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me,
Knowing thy heart torments me with disdain,
Have put on black and loving mourners be,
Looking with pretty ruth upon my pain.
And truly not the morning sun of heaven
Better becomes the grey cheeks of the east,
Nor that full star that ushers in the even,
Doth half that glory to the sober west,
As those two mourning eyes become thy face:
O! let it then as well beseem thy h…

Sonnet 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 …

Sonnet 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…

Sonnet 012 - XII
When I do count the clock that tells the time,
And see the brave day sunk in hideous night;
When I behold the violet past prime,
And sable curls, all silvered o'er with white;
When lofty trees I see barren of leaves,
Which erst from heat did canopy the herd,
And summer's green all girded up in sheaves,
Borne on the bier with white and bristly beard,
Then of thy beauty do I question make,
That thou among the …

Sonnet 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…

Sonnet 112 - CXII
Your love and pity doth the impression fill,
Which vulgar scandal stamped upon my brow;
For what care I who calls me well or ill,
So you o'er-green my bad, my good allow?
You are my all-the-world, and I must strive
To know my shames and praises from your tongue;
None else to me, nor I to none alive,
That my steeled sense or changes right or wrong.
In so profound abysm I throw all care
Of others' voices, tha…

Sonnet 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…

Sonnet 129 - CXXIX
The expense of spirit in a waste of shame
Is lust in action: and till action, lust
Is perjured, murderous, bloody, full of blame,
Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust;
Enjoyed no sooner but despised straight;
Past reason hunted; and no sooner had,
Past reason hated, as a swallowed bait,
On purpose laid to make the taker mad.
Mad in pursuit and in possession so;
Had, having, and in quest to have extreme;

Sonnet 126 - CXXVI
O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power
Dost hold Time's fickle glass, his sickle, hour;
Who hast by waning grown, and therein showest
Thy lovers withering, as thy sweet self growest.
If Nature, sovereign mistress over wrack,
As thou goest onwards still will pluck thee back,
She keeps thee to this purpose, that her skill
May time disgrace and wretched minutes kill.
Yet fear her, O thou minion of her pleasure!
…

Sonnet 035 - XXXV
No more be grieved at that which thou hast done:
Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud:
Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun,
And loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.
All men make faults, and even I in this,
Authorizing thy trespass with compare,
Myself corrupting, salving thy amiss,
Excusing thy sins more than thy sins are;
For to thy sensual fault I bring in sense,
Thy adverse party is thy advocat…

Sonnet 104 - CIV
To me, fair friend, you never can be old,
For as you were when first your eye I ey'd,
Such seems your beauty still. Three winters cold,
Have from the forests shook three summers' pride,
Three beauteous springs to yellow autumn turn'd,
In process of the seasons have I seen,
Three April perfumes in three hot Junes burn'd,
Since first I saw you fresh, which yet are green.
Ah! yet doth beauty like a dial-hand,…

Sonnet 132 - CXXXII
Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me,
Knowing thy heart torments me with disdain,
Have put on black and loving mourners be,
Looking with pretty ruth upon my pain.
And truly not the morning sun of heaven
Better becomes the grey cheeks of the east,
Nor that full star that ushers in the even,
Doth half that glory to the sober west,
As those two mourning eyes become thy face:
O! let it then as well beseem thy h…

Sonnet 044 - XLIV
If the dull substance of my flesh were thought,
Injurious distance should not stop my way;
For then despite of space I would be brought,
From limits far remote, where thou dost stay.
No matter then although my foot did stand
Upon the farthest earth remov'd from thee;
For nimble thought can jump both sea and land,
As soon as think the place where he would be.
But, ah! thought kills me that I am not thought,
To l…

Sonnet 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…

Sonnet 014 - XIV
Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck;
And yet methinks I have Astronomy,
But not to tell of good or evil luck,
Of plagues, of dearths, or seasons' quality;
Nor can I fortune to brief minutes tell,
Pointing to each his thunder, rain and wind,
Or say with princes if it shall go well
By oft predict that I in heaven find:
But from thine eyes my knowledge I derive,
And, constant stars, in them I read such art

Sonnet 068 - LXVIII
Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn,
When beauty lived and died as flowers do now,
Before these bastard signs of fair were born,
Or durst inhabit on a living brow;
Before the golden tresses of the dead,
The right of sepulchres, were shorn away,
To live a second life on second head;
Ere beauty's dead fleece made another gay:
In him those holy antique hours are seen,
Without all ornament, itself and true,…

Sonnet 125 - CXXV
Were't aught to me I bore the canopy,
With my extern the outward honouring,
Or laid great bases for eternity,
Which proves more short than waste or ruining?
Have I not seen dwellers on form and favour
Lose all and more by paying too much rent
For compound sweet, forgoing simple savour,
Pitiful thrivers, in their gazing spent?
No; let me be obsequious in thy heart,
And take thou my oblation, poor but free,

Sonnet 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…

Sonnet 053 - LIII
What is your substance, whereof are you made,
That millions of strange shadows on you tend?
Since every one hath, every one, one shade,
And you but one, can every shadow lend.
Describe Adonis, and the counterfeit
Is poorly imitated after you;
On Helen's cheek all art of beauty set,
And you in Grecian tires are painted new:
Speak of the spring, and foison of the year,
The one doth shadow of your beauty show,

Sonnet 144 - CXLIV
Two loves I have of comfort and despair,
Which like two spirits do suggest me still:
The better angel is a man right fair,
The worser spirit a woman coloured ill.
To win me soon to hell, my female evil,
Tempteth my better angel from my side,
And would corrupt my saint to be a devil,
Wooing his purity with her foul pride.
And whether that my angel be turned fiend,
Suspect I may, yet not directly tell;
But bei…

Sonnet 092 - XCII
But do thy worst to steal thyself away,
For term of life thou art assured mine;
And life no longer than thy love will stay,
For it depends upon that love of thine.
Then need I not to fear the worst of wrongs,
When in the least of them my life hath end.
I see a better state to me belongs
Than that which on thy humour doth depend:
Thou canst not vex me with inconstant mind,
Since that my life on thy revolt doth lie. …

Sonnet 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…