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Sonnet 147 by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 147 by William Shakespeare

Sonnet 147

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Sonnet 147 by William Shakespeare

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Sonnet 147 in the 1609 Quarto.

Sonnet 147 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...

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Sonnet 147 Annotated

My love is as a fever, longing still
For that which longer nurseth the disease;
Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill,
The uncertain sickly appetite to please.
My reason, the physician to my love,
Angry that his prescriptions are not kept,
Hath left me, and I desperate now approve
Desire is death, which physic did except.
Past cure I am, now Reason is past care,
And frantic-mad with evermore unrest;
My thoughts and my discourse as madmen's are,
At random from the truth vainly expressed;
For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright,
Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.

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Sonnet 147 was written by William Shakespeare.

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