Sonnet 61

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Album Sonnets

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William Shakespeare

1609

Sonnet 61 by William Shakespeare

Release Date

Thu Jan 01 1609

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William Shakespeare

About

Sonnet 61 in the 1609 Quarto.

This sonnet is part of the sequence dedicated to the Fair Youth. It continues the theme of tortured insecurity, an older man struggling with his feelings for a young, attractive boy. It picks up again the ideas that appear in sonnets 57 and 58.

Shakespeare asks himsel...

Sonnet 61 Annotated

Is it thy will, thy image should keep open
My heavy eyelids to the weary night?
Dost thou desire my slumbers should be broken,
While shadows like to thee do mock my sight?
Is it thy spirit that thou send'st from thee
So far from home into my deeds to pry,
To find out shames and idle hours in me,
The scope and tenor of thy jealousy?
O, no! thy love, though much, is not so great:
It is my love that keeps mine eye awake:
Mine own true love that doth my rest defeat,
To play the watchman ever for thy sake:
For thee watch I, whilst thou dost wake elsewhere,
From me far off, with others all too near.

Sonnet 61 Q&A

Who wrote Sonnet 61's ?

Sonnet 61 was written by William Shakespeare.

When did William Shakespeare release Sonnet 61?

William Shakespeare released Sonnet 61 on Thu Jan 01 1609.

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