Sonnet 45

William Shakespeare * Track #45 On Sonnets

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Album Sonnets

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William Shakespeare

1609

Sonnet 45 by William Shakespeare

Release Date

Thu Jan 01 1609

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William Shakespeare

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This sonnet recounts the internal maelstrom of feeling the speaker experiences while waiting to hear back from his lover. It is a companion piece to Sonnet 44 which dealt with earth and water. Here the subject is air and fire.
The four elements formed what Shakespeare and his contemporaries understo...

Sonnet 45 Annotated

The other two, slight air and purging fire,
Are both with thee, wherever I abide;
The first my thought, the other my desire,
These present-absent with swift motion slide.
For when these quicker elements are gone
In tender embassy of love to thee,
My life, being made of four, with two alone
Sinks down to death, oppressed with melancholy;
Until life's composition be recured
By those swift messengers return'd from thee,
Who even but now come back again, assured
Of thy fair health, recounting it to me:
This told, I joy; but then no longer glad,
I send them back again and straight grow sad.

Sonnet 45 Q&A

Who wrote Sonnet 45's ?

Sonnet 45 was written by William Shakespeare.

When did William Shakespeare release Sonnet 45?

William Shakespeare released Sonnet 45 on Thu Jan 01 1609.

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