Sonnet 55

William Shakespeare * Track #55 On Sonnets

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Album Sonnets

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William Shakespeare

1609

Sonnet 55 by William Shakespeare

Release Date

Thu Jan 01 1609

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William Shakespeare

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This sonnet is particularly admired for its musical quality, its balance and rhythm, and its positive message of the power of poetry and enduring love. The Bard has progressed in his relationship with the Fair Youth from the early sonnets with their desperate urging for the boy to preserve his beaut...

Sonnet 55 Annotated

Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme;
But you shall shine more bright in these contents
Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time.
When wasteful war shall statues overturn,
And broils root out the work of masonry,
Nor Mars his sword, nor war's quick fire shall burn
The living record of your memory.
'Gainst death, and all oblivious enmity
Shall you pace forth; your praise shall still find room
Even in the eyes of all posterity
That wear this world out to the ending doom.
So, till the judgment that yourself arise,
You live in this, and dwell in lovers' eyes.

Sonnet 55 Q&A

Who wrote Sonnet 55's ?

Sonnet 55 was written by William Shakespeare.

When did William Shakespeare release Sonnet 55?

William Shakespeare released Sonnet 55 on Thu Jan 01 1609.

Has this sonnet been referenced anywhere in modern literature?

Yes! In Chapter 3 of John Green’s The Fault In Our Stars, within a letter from fictional author Peter Van Houten, the author notes:

Hazel reminds me of the Bard’s Fifty-fifth sonnet, which of course begins, “Not marble, nor the gilded monuments / Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme; / But...

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