Sonnet 68

William Shakespeare * Track #68 On Sonnets

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Album Sonnets

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William Shakespeare

1609

Sonnet 68 by William Shakespeare

Release Date

Thu Jan 01 1609

Performed by

William Shakespeare

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Sonnet 68 in the 1609 Quarto.

This sonnet continues the sequence in praise of the Fair Youth. It develops the idea, explored in sonnets 66 and 67, that nothing and no-one can match the beauty of the beloved boy. The Bard complains that there is too much artificial beauty in the world, and natural...

Sonnet 68 Annotated

Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn,
When beauty lived and died as flowers do now,
Before these bastard signs of fair were born,
Or durst inhabit on a living brow;
Before the golden tresses of the dead,
The right of sepulchres, were shorn away,
To live a second life on second head;
Ere beauty's dead fleece made another gay:
In him those holy antique hours are seen,
Without all ornament, itself and true,
Making no summer of another's green,
Robbing no old to dress his beauty new;
And him as for a map doth Nature store,
To show false Art what beauty was of yore.

Sonnet 68 Q&A

Who wrote Sonnet 68's ?

Sonnet 68 was written by William Shakespeare.

When did William Shakespeare release Sonnet 68?

William Shakespeare released Sonnet 68 on Thu Jan 01 1609.

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