Sonnet 114

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Album Sonnets

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William Shakespeare

1609

Sonnet 114 by William Shakespeare

Release Date

Thu Jan 01 1609

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William Shakespeare

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Sonnet 114 in the 1609 Quarto.

Sonnet 114 belongs to the Fair Youth sequence of sonnets–numbers 1–126–which was dedicated to a “Mr. W.H.” Popular candidates for the identity of W.H. include Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, and William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, both of whom were pat...

Sonnet 114 Annotated

Or whether doth my mind, being crowned with you,
Drink up the monarch's plague, this flattery?
Or whether shall I say, mine eye saith true,
And that your love taught it this alchemy,
To make of monsters and things indigest
Such cherubins as your sweet self resemble,
Creating every bad a perfect best,
As fast as objects to his beams assemble?
O! 'tis the first, 'tis flattery in my seeing,
And my great mind most kingly drinks it up:
Mine eye well knows what with his gust is 'greeing,
And to his palate doth prepare the cup:
If it be poisoned, 'tis the lesser sin
That mine eye loves it and doth first begin.

Sonnet 114 Q&A

Who wrote Sonnet 114's ?

Sonnet 114 was written by William Shakespeare.

When did William Shakespeare release Sonnet 114?

William Shakespeare released Sonnet 114 on Thu Jan 01 1609.

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