Sonnet 144

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Sonnet 144 by William Shakespeare

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Sonnet 144 continues the sequence of sonnets dedicated by Shakespeare to his “"Dark Lady”. The Fair Youth is no longer the prime 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...

Sonnet 144 Annotated

Two loves I have of comfort and despair
Which like two spirits do suggest me still:
The better angel is a man right fair
The worser spirit a woman coloured ill
To win me soon to hell, my female evil
Tempteth my better angel from my side
And would corrupt my saint to be a devil
Wooing his purity with her foul pride
And whether that my angel be turned fiend
Suspect I may, yet not directly tell;
But being both from me, both to each friend
I guess one angel in another's hell:
Yet this shall I ne'er know, but live in doubt
Till my bad angel fire my good one out

Sonnet 144

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