Sonnet 54

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Album Sonnets

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William Shakespeare

1609

Sonnet 54 by William Shakespeare

Release Date

Thu Jan 01 1609

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William Shakespeare

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Sonnet 54 from the 1609 Quarto.
This sonnet is part of the sequence in praise of the Fair Youth. The sonnet draws a parallel between the young man with his inner beauty and two types of rose. The “true” rose which smells sweet has an inner life that endures, like the beauty and sweetness of the yo...

Sonnet 54 Annotated

O! how much more doth beauty beauteous seem
By that sweet ornament which truth doth give.
The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem
For that sweet odour, which doth in it live.
The canker blooms have full as deep a dye
As the perfumed tincture of the roses,
Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly
When summer's breath their masked buds discloses:
But, for their virtue only is their show,
They live unwoo'd, and unrespected fade;
Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so;
Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made:
And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth,
When that shall fade, my verse distills your truth.

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Sonnet 54 was written by William Shakespeare.

When did William Shakespeare release Sonnet 54?

William Shakespeare released Sonnet 54 on Thu Jan 01 1609.

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