Venus and Adonis
Personified as a central theme; Venus speaks of love's future sorrows and deceptions.
Sonnet 138
Personified as a force that accommodates deception and soothes age-related insecurities.
Sonnet 144
Personified as the two conflicting spirits of comfort and despair.
VII
Personified as a force that is framed and then betrayed by the beloved's actions.
XII
Referred to as 'my love' who is young, and the speaker longs for their arrival.
Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music
Personified as a force that causes the lover's despair and is declared dead in the shepherd's lament.
XVI
Personified as a force in the combat between love for the master and love for the knight.
XVII
Personified as a lover whose month is always May, spying a blossom.
XVIII
Personified as dead, causing the shepherd's grief.
The Passionate Pilgrim: XX
Personified as the subject of the invitation and the conditional response.
The Phoenix and the Turtle
Love and constancy is dead; the anthem declares love's demise.
Sonnet XXIII
Personified as the force that overwhelms the speaker and renders him speechless.
XXV
Love is presented as the source of the speaker's happiness, immune to the vicissitudes of fortune.
Sonnet XXIX
The beloved whose memory brings the speaker from despair to ecstatic joy.
XXXI
Personified as reigning in the beloved's bosom, embodying all loving parts.
XXXIV
The beloved whose tears are described as pearls that ransom ill deeds.
Sonnet XXXVI
Personified as the force that unites the two despite their physical separation.
XL
Personified as a witness to the speaker's greater grief at love's wrongs compared to hate's injuries.
XLII
Personified as the force behind the emotional entanglement.
Sonnet LI
Personified as the force that drives the speaker's desire and excuses his horse's sluggishness.
LVI
Addressed as 'Sweet love' and urged to renew its force.
Sonnet LVII
Personified as a true fool that thinks no ill of the beloved.
LXI
Personified as the speaker's own true love that keeps him awake.
Sonnet LXIII
The poet's love for the beloved is the subject of preservation against time.
Sonnet LXIV
The beloved who will eventually be taken by Time, causing the poet to weep.
Sonnet LXVI
The beloved whose existence prevents the speaker from seeking death.
LXXII
Personified as the beloved's true affection, which might be tainted by dishonest praise.
Sonnet LXXVI
Personified as the central subject of the poet's verse, alongside the beloved.
Sonnet 80
The poet's love is cited as the cause of his decay.
Sonnet LXXXVIII
Personified as the force that bends all loving thoughts on the beloved, driving the poet's self-sacrifice.
Sonnet LXXXIX
Personified as the beloved, the object of the poet's devotion and the one whose will dictates the poet's actions.
XC
Implied as the beloved whose potential hatred is the speaker's greatest fear.
Sonnet XCIII
Personified as having a face that may seem constant despite inner change.
Sonnet 100
The poet's love is the subject whose fame is to be preserved against time's decay.
Sonnet CV
Personified as the poet's constant affection.
Sonnet CIX
Personified as the force binding the speaker to the beloved.
Sonnet CX
Personified as a god to whom the poet is confined, representing the idealized beloved.
Sonnet CXII
Personified as the source of the beloved's pity and the force that fills the impression of scandal.
Sonnet CXV
Described as a babe that continues to grow, challenging the poet's earlier claim of loving at the fullest.
Sonnet CXVI
Personified as an ever-fixed mark and guiding star, immune to alteration and time.
Sonnet CXVII
The beloved whose constancy is being tested.
CXXIV
Personified as the speaker's dear love, independent of fortune and time.
Sonnet CXXX
Personified as the poet's genuine affection, which he values despite the lack of conventional beauty.
CXXXI
Personified as the force that makes the speaker groan in adoration.
Sonnet CXXXII
The beloved whose eyes are described as pitying the poet.
CXXXVI
Personified as the force driving the speaker's suit.
Sonnet CXXXVII
Addressed as a blind fool who deceives the poet's eyes and heart.
CXXXVIII
Personified as the force that prefers seeming trust over truth.
CXL
The personified beloved addressed as cruel yet desired to show love.
Sonnet CXLI
Personified as the foolish heart that enslaves the speaker.
CXLII
Personified as the sin the speaker feels, and as a force that binds both speaker and beloved.
CXLIV
Personified as the two conflicting spirits.
Sonnet CXLV
Personified as the creator of the beloved's lips.
Sonnet CXLVII
Personified as a fever that consumes the speaker.
Sonnet CXLVIII
Personified as a cunning force that blinds the poet with tears.
Sonnet CXLIX
Personified as the addressee, the cruel beloved who is both loved and hated.
Sonnet CL
The poet addresses the beloved, whose unworthiness paradoxically raises love in him.
Sonnet 151
Personified as too young to know conscience
Sonnet CLIII
Love's brand is used to create a healing bath, but the poet's cure is found only in his mistress's eyes.
Sonnet 154
Personified as the general of hot desire, disarmed by a virgin hand.
A Lover's Complaint
Personified as a powerful force that overcomes vows, reason, and shame, making the youth irresistible.
