Where can I find Shakespeare's "Dark Lady" sonnet?

Question

Where can I find Shakespeare's "Dark Lady" sonnet?

Answer 1

The Dark Lady sonnets are a number of poems and not just one in particular.  If you are studying this sequence poems it is useful to read them in comparison to the sonnets which Shakespeare composed for an unidentified young man from both the perspective hetero and homosexual eroticism evidenced in both sets of sonnets and also the glorification and deification of the young man in contrast with the arguable denigration of the "Dark Lady".  A complete collection of Shakespeare's Sonnets, such as the one produced by Cambridge University Press, is the most useful I have encountered.

Answer 2

http://hudsonshakespeare.org/Shakespeare...

Answer 3

Shakespeare's sonnets127 to 152 are generally said to be addressed to a "dark lady", because she is described as having dark hair and a rather dark skin (at the time, this would have been in contrast to the more common fashion of having a fair skin).

You can read the sonnets there:

http://www.shakespeares-sonnets.com/

This site also offers good explanations. Look especially at sonnet 130, in which the lady is described with a series of inverted metaphors and similes:

http://www.shakespeares-sonnets.com/130c...