Sonnet 66

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Album Sonnets

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William Shakespeare

1609

Sonnet 66 by William Shakespeare

Release Date

Thu Jan 01 1609

Performed by

William Shakespeare

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Sonnet 66 from the 1609 Quarto.

This sonnet continues the sequence dedicated to the Fair Youth. The speaker is in depressed mood, and lists the reasons for his unhappiness, all related to injustices and misfortunes that beset humanity.

The sonnet is unusual in that there is only one reference to t...

Sonnet 66 Annotated

Tired with all these, for restful death I cry,
As to behold desert a beggar born,
And needy nothing trimm'd in jollity,
And purest faith unhappily forsworn,
And gilded honour shamefully misplaced,
And maiden virtue rudely strumpeted,
And right perfection wrongfully disgraced,
And strength by limping sway disabled
And art made tongue-tied by authority,
And folly, doctor-like, controlling skill,
And simple truth miscalled simplicity,
And captive good attending captain ill:
Tired with all these, from these would I be gone,
Save that, to die, I leave my love alone.

Sonnet 66 Q&A

Who wrote Sonnet 66's ?

Sonnet 66 was written by William Shakespeare.

When did William Shakespeare release Sonnet 66?

William Shakespeare released Sonnet 66 on Thu Jan 01 1609.

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