What does this sonnet mean?

Question

Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all;

What hast thou then more than thou hadst before?

No love, my love, that thou mayst true love call;

All mine was thine before thou hadst this more.

Then if for my love thou my love receivest,

I cannot blame thee for my love thou usest;

But yet be blamed, if thou thyself deceivest

By wilful taste of what thyself refusest.

I do forgive thy robbery, gentle thief,

Although thou steal thee all my poverty;

And yet, love knows, it is a greater grief

To bear love's wrong than hate's known injury.

Lascivious grace, in whom all ill well shows,

Kill me with spites; yet we must not be foes.

Answer 1

There are several websites which give you explanations of Shakespeare sonnets.

Answer 2

Hi there, as I read this beautiful yet tragic sonnet I believe it means that one persons love toward another is so pure yet it is undeserved by the lover as they have no respect for love at all. The lover is controlling but sadly out of only what he knows of love and yet still remains loved to spite his lack of decency.