Sonnet 5

William Shakespeare * Track #5 On Sonnets

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Album Sonnets

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William Shakespeare

1609

Sonnet 5 by William Shakespeare

Release Date

Thu Jan 01 1609

Performed by

William Shakespeare

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This sonnet developes the theme of the preceeding sonnets of the beautiful young man who is urged by the speaker, we can assume the poet, to procreate. This forms one of the sequence of the seventeen “procreation sonnets” in which the Bard tries to persuade the young man to have children, so that h...

Sonnet 5 Annotated

Those hours, that with gentle work did frame
The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell,
Will play the tyrants to the very same
And that unfair which fairly doth excel;
For never-resting time leads summer on
To hideous winter, and confounds him there;
Sap checked with frost, and lusty leaves quite gone,
Beauty o'er-snowed and bareness every where:
Then were not summer's distillation left,
A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass,
Beauty's effect with beauty were bereft,
Nor it, nor no remembrance what it was:
But flowers distilled, though they with winter meet,
Leese but their show; their substance still lives sweet.

Sonnet 5 Q&A

Who wrote Sonnet 5's ?

Sonnet 5 was written by William Shakespeare.

When did William Shakespeare release Sonnet 5?

William Shakespeare released Sonnet 5 on Thu Jan 01 1609.

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