Sonnet 64

William Shakespeare * Track #64 On Sonnets

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Album Sonnets

ALBUM

William Shakespeare

1609

Sonnet 64 by William Shakespeare

Release Date

Thu Jan 01 1609

Performed by

William Shakespeare

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Sonnet 64 from the 1609 Quarto.

Henry Wriothesley, a possible candidate for the Fair Youth

This sonnet is part of the sequence dedicated to the Fair Youth; the unidentified beautiful boy. It picks up a theme repeated in many of the sonnets — the preceeding Sonnet 63 is a good example — that of p...

Sonnet 64 Annotated

When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced
The rich proud cost of outworn buried age;
When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed,
And brass eternal slave to mortal rage;
When I have seen the hungry ocean gain
Advantage on the kingdom of the shore,
And the firm soil win of the watery main,
Increasing store with loss, and loss with store;
When I have seen such interchange of state,
Or state itself confounded to decay;
Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate
That Time will come and take my love away.
This thought is as a death which cannot choose
But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

Sonnet 64 Q&A

Who wrote Sonnet 64's ?

Sonnet 64 was written by William Shakespeare.

When did William Shakespeare release Sonnet 64?

William Shakespeare released Sonnet 64 on Thu Jan 01 1609.

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