Sonnet 63

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Album Sonnets

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William Shakespeare

1609

Sonnet 63 by William Shakespeare

Release Date

Thu Jan 01 1609

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William Shakespeare

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Sonnet 63 in the 1609 Quarto.

This continues the sonnet sequence that Shakespeare dedicated to the Fair Youth. As with so many of his sonnets he deals with the themes of time and its destruction of beauty, and poetry as a means to preserve the love that death would otherwise destroy. These can be...

Sonnet 63 Annotated

Against my love shall be as I am now,
With Time's injurious hand crushed and o'erworn;
When hours have drained his blood and filled his brow
With lines and wrinkles; when his youthful morn
Hath travelled on to age's steepy night;
And all those beauties whereof now he's king
Are vanishing, or vanished out of sight,
Stealing away the treasure of his spring;
For such a time do I now fortify
Against confounding age's cruel knife,
That he shall never cut from memory
My sweet love's beauty, though my lover's life:
His beauty shall in these black lines be seen,
And they shall live, and he in them still green.

Sonnet 63 Q&A

Who wrote Sonnet 63's ?

Sonnet 63 was written by William Shakespeare.

When did William Shakespeare release Sonnet 63?

William Shakespeare released Sonnet 63 on Thu Jan 01 1609.

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