Sonnet 28

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Album Sonnets

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William Shakespeare

1609

Sonnet 28 by William Shakespeare

Release Date

Thu Jan 01 1609

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William Shakespeare

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Henry Wriothesley, a candidate for the Fair Youth

Sonnet 28 continues the theme of the previous sonnet. Shakespeare is far away from the Fair Youth and he sees in this a conspiracy between day and night to torture him. In his distress he attempts to placate both by telling them that the beloved yo...

Sonnet 28 Annotated

How can I then return in happy plight,
That am debarred the benefit of rest?
When day's oppression is not eas'd by night,
But day by night and night by day oppressed,
And each, though enemies to either's reign,
Do in consent shake hands to torture me,
The one by toil, the other to complain
How far I toil, still farther off from thee.
I tell the day, to please him thou art bright,
And dost him grace when clouds do blot the heaven:
So flatter I the swart-complexion'd night,
When sparkling stars twire not thou gild'st the even.
But day doth daily draw my sorrows longer,
And night doth nightly make grief's length seem stronger.

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Who wrote Sonnet 28's ?

Sonnet 28 was written by William Shakespeare.

When did William Shakespeare release Sonnet 28?

William Shakespeare released Sonnet 28 on Thu Jan 01 1609.

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