Elena Maslova-Levin

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Sonnets in colour: 19-34

And the trials of forbidden romantic love begin: in this act the speaker goes from the heights of overwhelming bliss and adoration to sorrows of separation and to the despair of betrayal, from the joyful interplay of all colours of the rainbow to muted cold greys of depression.

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Sonnet 19: For beauty's pattern to succeeding men
Sonnet 20: All hues in his controlling
Sonnet 21: A couplement of proud compare
Sonnet 22: Bearing thy heart
Sonnet 23: The dumb presagers of my speaking breast
Sonnet 24: Mine eye hath played the painter
Sonnet 25: But as a marigold in the sun's eye
Sonnet 26: To witness duty, not to show my wit
Sonnet 27: Like a jewel hung in ghastly night
Sonnet 28: When day's oppression isn't eased by night
Sonnet 29: When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes
Sonnet 30: Remembrance of things past
Sonnet 31: Thou art the grave where buried love doth live
Sonnet 32: Had my friend's Muse grown with the growing age
Sonnet 33: Heavenly alchemy
Sonnet 34: It's not enough that through the cloud thou break