Sonnet 40

William Shakespeare * Track #40 On Sonnets

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Album Sonnets

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William Shakespeare

1609

Sonnet 40 by William Shakespeare

Release Date

Thu Jan 01 1609

Performed by

William Shakespeare

About

Henry Wriothesley, a possibility for the identity of the Fair Youth.

This is the first sonnet in a sub-sequence which alludes to a love triangle between the speaker, the fair youth, and the speaker’s female lover, known in future sonnets as the “dark lady”. A similar theme is explored in Sonnet 41....

Sonnet 40 Annotated

Take all my loves, my love, yea take them all;
What hast thou then more than thou hadst before?
No love, my love, that thou mayst true love call;
All mine was thine, before thou hadst this more.
Then, if for my love, thou my love receivest,
I cannot blame thee, for my love thou usest;
But yet be blam'd, if thou thy self deceivest
By wilful taste of what thyself refusest.
I do forgive thy robbery, gentle thief,
Although thou steal thee all my poverty:
And yet, love knows it is a greater grief
To bear love's wrong, than hate's known injury.
Lascivious grace, in whom all ill well shows,
Kill me with spites yet we must not be foes.

Sonnet 40 Q&A

Who wrote Sonnet 40's ?

Sonnet 40 was written by William Shakespeare.

When did William Shakespeare release Sonnet 40?

William Shakespeare released Sonnet 40 on Thu Jan 01 1609.

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