Sonnet 140

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Album Sonnets

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William Shakespeare

1609

Sonnet 140 by William Shakespeare

Release Date

Thu Jan 01 1609

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William Shakespeare

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Sonnet 140 in the 1609 Quarto.

Sonnet 140 continues the sequence of sonnets dedicated by Shakespeare to his “"Dark Lady”. The Fair Youth is no longer the subject and the woman is now central. Her identity is unknown and, as with the boy, it is a matter of academic debate as to whether she is fictio...

Sonnet 140 Annotated

Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press
My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain;
Lest sorrow lend me words, and words express
The manner of my pity-wanting pain.
If I might teach thee wit, better it were,
Though not to love, yet, love to tell me so;
As testy sick men, when their deaths be near,
No news but health from their physicians know;
For, if I should despair, I should grow mad,
And in my madness might speak ill of thee;
Now this ill-wresting world is grown so bad,
Mad slanderers by mad ears believed be.
That I may not be so, nor thou belied,
Bear thine eyes straight, though thy proud heart go wide.

Sonnet 140 Q&A

Who wrote Sonnet 140's ?

Sonnet 140 was written by William Shakespeare.

When did William Shakespeare release Sonnet 140?

William Shakespeare released Sonnet 140 on Thu Jan 01 1609.

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