High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sonnet 126 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It`s the final member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet shows how Time and nature coincide. This sonnet has 12 lines, although it is possible that the other two lines have been lost. Sonnet 99 is the only other sonnet that does not have 14 lines (it has 15).