Sonnet 60

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Album Sonnets

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William Shakespeare

1609

Sonnet 60 by William Shakespeare

Release Date

Thu Jan 01 1609

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William Shakespeare

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Text of Sonnet 60 from the 1609 Quarto.

Sonnet 60 is part of the “Fair Youth” sequence, which Shakespeare wrote in praise of a beautiful young man. However, like Sonnet 59, this is as much a loving tribute to poetry as to the boy. In this poem the abstract, personified, capitalised Time — and its e...

Sonnet 60 Annotated

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,
So do our minutes hasten to their end;
Each changing place with that which goes before,
In sequent toil all forwards do contend.
Nativity, once in the main of light,
Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crown'd,
Crooked eclipses 'gainst his glory fight,
And Time that gave doth now his gift confound.
Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth
And delves the parallels in beauty's brow,
Feeds on the rarities of nature's truth,
And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow:
And yet to times in hope, my verse shall stand
Praising thy worth, despite his cruel hand.

Sonnet 60 Q&A

Who wrote Sonnet 60's ?

Sonnet 60 was written by William Shakespeare.

When did William Shakespeare release Sonnet 60?

William Shakespeare released Sonnet 60 on Thu Jan 01 1609.

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