Sonnet 4

William Shakespeare * Track #4 On Sonnets

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Album Sonnets

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William Shakespeare

1609

Sonnet 4 by William Shakespeare

Release Date

Thu Jan 01 1609

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William Shakespeare

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Sonnet 4 in facsimile.

Scholars are uncertain whether the sonnets were originally written for a woman or a man, though most agree that a man is more likely. It’s part of the Fair Youth sequence of sonnets–numbers 1–126–which was dedicated to a “Mr. W.H.” Popular candidates for the identity of W.H....

Sonnet 4 Annotated

Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend
Upon thy self thy beauty's legacy?
Nature's bequest gives nothing, but doth lend
And being frank she lends to those are free:
Then, beauteous niggard, why dost thou abuse
The bounteous largess given thee to give?
Profitless usurer, why dost thou use
So great a sum of sums, yet canst not live?
For having traffic with thy self alone
Thou of thy self thy sweet self dost deceive:
Then how when nature calls thee to be gone
What acceptable audit canst thou leave?
Thy unused beauty must be tombed with thee
Which, used, lives th' executor to be

Sonnet 4 Q&A

Who wrote Sonnet 4's ?

Sonnet 4 was written by William Shakespeare.

When did William Shakespeare release Sonnet 4?

William Shakespeare released Sonnet 4 on Thu Jan 01 1609.

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