Sonnet 17

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Album Sonnets

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William Shakespeare

1609

Sonnet 17 by William Shakespeare

Release Date

Thu Jan 01 1609

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William Shakespeare

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Text of Sonnet 17 from the 1609 Quarto.

This sonnet is the last of seventeen in Shakespeare’s sonnet sequence that focuses on the Fair Youth passing on his beauty to his children and thereby perpetuating himself. Throughout the previous sixteen sonnets, the speaker criticises the young man for not...

Sonnet 17 Annotated

Who will believe my verse in time to come,
If it were filled with your most high deserts?
Though yet heaven knows it is but as a tomb
Which hides your life, and shows not half your parts.
If I could write the beauty of your eyes,
And in fresh numbers number all your graces,
The age to come would say 'This poet lies;
Such heavenly touches ne'er touched earthly faces.'
So should my papers, yellowed with their age,
Be scorned, like old men of less truth than tongue,
And your true rights be termed a poet's rage
And stretched metre of an antique song:
But were some child of yours alive that time,
You should live twice, in it, and in my rhyme.

Sonnet 17 Q&A

Who wrote Sonnet 17's ?

Sonnet 17 was written by William Shakespeare.

When did William Shakespeare release Sonnet 17?

William Shakespeare released Sonnet 17 on Thu Jan 01 1609.

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