Sonnet 126

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Album Sonnets

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William Shakespeare

1609

Sonnet 126 by William Shakespeare

Release Date

Thu Jan 01 1609

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William Shakespeare

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Sonnet 126 in the 1609 Quarto.

This is the last sonnet in the 126 poem sequence explicitly addressed to the “Fair Youth.” It is also the only sonnet in rhyming couplets and consisting of less than than the traditional template of fourteen lines; Shakespeare stops at line twelve. Given the variatio...

Sonnet 126 Annotated

O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power
Dost hold Time's fickle glass, his sickle hour;
Who hast by waning grown, and therein show'st
Thy lovers withering, as thy sweet self grow'st.
If Nature, sovereign mistress over wrack,
As thou goest onwards still will pluck thee back,
She keeps thee to this purpose, that her skill
May time disgrace and wretched minutes kill.
Yet fear her, O thou minion of her pleasure!
She may detain, but not still keep, her treasure:
Her audit (though delay'd) answered must be,
And her quietus is to render thee.
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Sonnet 126 was written by William Shakespeare.

When did William Shakespeare release Sonnet 126?

William Shakespeare released Sonnet 126 on Thu Jan 01 1609.

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