Sonnet 2

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Album Sonnets

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William Shakespeare

1609

Sonnet 2 by William Shakespeare

Release Date

Thu Jan 01 1609

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William Shakespeare

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Scholars are uncertain whether Shakespeare’s sonnet sequence was originally written for a woman or a man, though most agree that a man is more likely. Sonnet 2 is part of the Fair Youth sequence of Shakespeare’s sonnets–numbers 1–126–which, along with the rest of his sonnets, was dedicated to a “Mr....

Sonnet 2 Annotated

When forty winters shall besiege thy brow,
And dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field,
Thy youth's proud livery so gaz'd on now,
Will be a totter'd weed of small worth held:
Then being asked, where all thy beauty lies,
Where all the treasure of thy lusty days;
To say, within thine own deep sunken eyes,
Were an all-eating shame, and thriftless praise,
How much more praise deserv'd thy beauty's use,
If thou couldst answer 'This fair child of mine
Shall sum my count, and make my old excuse,'
Proving his beauty by succession thine!
This were to be new made when thou art old
And see thy blood warm when thou feel'st it cold

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Who wrote Sonnet 2's ?

Sonnet 2 was written by William Shakespeare.

When did William Shakespeare release Sonnet 2?

William Shakespeare released Sonnet 2 on Thu Jan 01 1609.

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