Sonnet 41

William Shakespeare * Track #41 On Sonnets

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Album Sonnets

ALBUM

William Shakespeare

1609

Sonnet 41 by William Shakespeare

Release Date

Thu Jan 01 1609

Performed by

William Shakespeare

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This sonnet is a complaint about the Fair Youth’s unfaithfulness, picking up a theme from Sonnet 40. The speaker believes his infidelity is inevitable because of his beauty. However, the final couplet reveals that the youth is being unfaithful with the Bard’s mistress, so the poet is doubly betrayed...

Sonnet 41 Annotated

Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits,
When I am sometime absent from thy heart,
Thy beauty, and thy years full well befits,
For still temptation follows where thou art.
Gentle thou art, and therefore to be won,
Beauteous thou art, therefore to be assailed;
And when a woman woos, what woman's son
Will sourly leave her till he have prevailed?
Ay me! but yet thou mightst my seat forbear,
And chide thy beauty and thy straying youth,
Who lead thee in their riot even there
Where thou art forced to break a twofold truth:
Hers by thy beauty tempting her to thee,
Thine by thy beauty being false to me.

Sonnet 41 Q&A

Who wrote Sonnet 41's ?

Sonnet 41 was written by William Shakespeare.

When did William Shakespeare release Sonnet 41?

William Shakespeare released Sonnet 41 on Thu Jan 01 1609.

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