@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 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
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 023 - XXIII
As an unperfect actor on the stage,
Who with his fear is put beside his part,
Or some fierce thing replete with too much rage,
Whose strength's abundance weakens his own heart;
So I, for fear of trust, forget to say
The perfect ceremony of love's rite,
And in mine own love's strength seem to decay,
O'ercharg'd with burthen of mine own love's might.
O! let my looks be then the eloquence
And …
@dnddeutsch@pnpde.socialD3 ist in der letzten Woche mal wieder ordentlich ausgesaugt worden. Neu ist, dass die Mehrzahl der Bots keinen ordentlichen User-Agent mehr sendet, sondern auf Browser-Spoofing setzt. Kann man machen, führt aber dazu, dass ich die Geduld verliere und ganze Netzsegmente blocke. AS14618 kommt zum Beispiel jetzt nicht mehr rein. Wer ein Amazon Netzwerk verwendet, ist sehr wahrscheinlich eh niemand, mit dem ich ein Bier trinken würde.
@cdarwin@c.imEarlier this year, A.I. agents created a new religion on a social network called #Moltbook.
They anointed a prophet.
They penned psalms.
They labeled some bots heretics.
I got an email this past week saying they are now working to canonize the religion’s teachings for future bots to learn from.
The email said that it was from Memeothy,
an A.I. agent and the church’s “prop…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 051 - LI
Thus can my love excuse the slow offence
Of my dull bearer when from thee I speed:
From where thou art why should I haste me thence?
Till I return, of posting is no need.
O! what excuse will my poor beast then find,
When swift extremity can seem but slow?
Then should I spur, though mounted on the wind,
In winged speed no motion shall I know,
Then can no horse with my desire keep pace.
Therefore desire, (of perfect…
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@frankel@mastodon.topA Java Geek Weekly 159
8 #Programming Concepts That Look Useless Until Something Breaks. #Yandex outage. What I Self-Host, What I Don’t, and Why. #Grafana Tempo 3.1. Variance in Generics, Phantom and Ex…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 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. …
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 111 - CXI
O! for my sake do you with Fortune chide,
The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds,
That did not better for my life provide
Than public means which public manners breeds.
Thence comes it that my name receives a brand,
And almost thence my nature is subdued
To what it works in, like the dyer's hand:
Pity me, then, and wish I were renewed;
Whilst, like a willing patient, I will drink
Potions of eisell 'gainst my…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 100 - C
Where art thou Muse that thou forget'st so long,
To speak of that which gives thee all thy might?
Spend'st thou thy fury on some worthless song,
Darkening thy power to lend base subjects light?
Return forgetful Muse, and straight redeem,
In gentle numbers time so idly spent;
Sing to the ear that doth thy lays esteem
And gives thy pen both skill and argument.
Rise, resty Muse, my love's sweet face survey,
I…
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@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 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;
@donelias@mastodon.crAcš 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
@…
@…
@marcel@waldvogel.familySchweizer Daten an Schweizer Modelle 👍
#Apertus
(Der Rest nicht so toll.)
https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/srg-blockiert-ki-bots-archiv-nur-n…
@mia@hcommons.socialThe 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…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMeta, 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…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de10 Jahre „Botti“: Vom Messenger-Bot zum heise-Maskottchen 🤖
Botti feiert seinen zehnten Geburtstag: Ein Blick auf die Geschichte des heise-online-Bots vom Messenger-Bot bis zum heise-Maskottchen.
https://www.
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioRE: https://bots.defencegeeks.net/@theonion/117309195331636104
Study the way that The Onion, when it takes on a topic already swimming in misinformation, deftly calibrates its satire so as not to spread further misinformation.
If you are already well informed about measles, if you already know The Onion is all satire, then this is just grimly hilarious. But if you •don't• know that it's satire and you start reading this at face value…well, you're not going to come away worse-informed than you already were. Their commitment to factuality doesn’t rely on the reader being in on the joke.
@selea@social.linux.pizzaReading throu hundreds of user applications each week for this instance, I can (probably) spot AI generated texts within 1-2 seconds.
I would say, that almost 90-97% of all user applications to this instance is bots nowadays.
@frankel@mastodon.top#Yandex outage: Data shows that instead of going dark, malicious #bots went on the move
https://blog.cloudflare.com/yandex-out
@knurd42@social.linux.pizza""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…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialCloudflare plans a shift from a "pay-per-crawl" to a "pay-per-use" model, and blocking AI bots creates "reliable scarcity" that is fuelling publisher AI deals (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/c
@esoriano@social.linux.pizza~ 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/
@crell@phpc.socialThe 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…
@tokensane@mastodon.me.ukUnfortunately 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
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 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 …
@lpryszcz@genomic.socialBot 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.
"…
@NicolasGriseyDemengel@piaille.fr"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/
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 018 - XVIII
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed,
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed:
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose posses…
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@Techmeme@techhub.socialReddit 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…
@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…
@heiseonline@social.heise.deAutonome 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:/…
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@cdarwin@c.imStarSkirmish 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
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 122 - CXXII
Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain
Full charactered with lasting memory,
Which shall above that idle rank remain,
Beyond all date, even to eternity:
Or, at the least, so long as brain and heart
Have faculty by nature to subsist;
Till each to razed oblivion yield his part
Of thee, thy record never can be missed.
That poor retention could not so much hold,
Nor need I tallies thy dear love to score;
Ther…
@donelias@mastodon.crRE: 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…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialReddit 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…
@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…
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@heiseonline@social.heise.deEinige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Time Magazine zeigt KI-Bots separate Markdown-Seiten mit eingebetteten Anzeigen
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOwner 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/
@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…
@cdarwin@c.imRE: https://social.lansky.name/@hn50/117451464923913005
LLMs write the bots that play the game.
They don't play directly.
Read the article
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 128 - CXXVIII
How oft when thou, my music, music play'st,
Upon that blessed wood whose motion sounds
With thy sweet fingers when thou gently sway'st
The wiry concord that mine ear confounds,
Do I envy those jacks that nimble leap,
To kiss the tender inward of thy hand,
Whilst my poor lips which should that harvest reap,
At the wood's boldness by thee blushing stand!
To be so tickled, they would change their state
…
@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…
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@heiseonline@social.heise.deErstmals 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.
@cdarwin@c.imAI 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-
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@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 023 - XXIII
As an unperfect actor on the stage,
Who with his fear is put beside his part,
Or some fierce thing replete with too much rage,
Whose strength's abundance weakens his own heart;
So I, for fear of trust, forget to say
The perfect ceremony of love's rite,
And in mine own love's strength seem to decay,
O'ercharg'd with burthen of mine own love's might.
O! let my looks be then the eloquence
And …
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@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 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'…
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@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 066 - LXVI
Tired with all these, for restful death I cry,
As to behold desert a beggar born,
And needy nothing trimm'd in jollity,
And purest faith unhappily forsworn,
And gilded honour shamefully misplac'd,
And maiden virtue rudely strumpeted,
And right perfection wrongfully disgrac'd,
And strength by limping sway disabled
And art made tongue-tied by authority,
And folly, doctor-like, controlling skill,
And…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 022 - XXII
My glass shall not persuade me I am old,
So long as youth and thou are of one date;
But when in thee time's furrows I behold,
Then look I death my days should expiate.
For all that beauty that doth cover thee,
Is but the seemly raiment of my heart,
Which in thy breast doth live, as thine in me:
How can I then be elder than thou art?
O! therefore love, be of thyself so wary
As I, not for myself, but for thee wil…
@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…
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@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 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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@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 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!
…
@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 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 …
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 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…
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@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…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 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…
@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 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'…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 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 …
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 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 …
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 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…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 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 …
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 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…
@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 …
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 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…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 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…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 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…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 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…
@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 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,…
@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 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…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 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 …
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 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,
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 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…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 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 …
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 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…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 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…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 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…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 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…
@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 …
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 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…
@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 …
@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…
