Sonnet 69

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Album Sonnets

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William Shakespeare

1609

Sonnet 69 by William Shakespeare

Release Date

Thu Jan 01 1609

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William Shakespeare

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Sonnet 69 in the 1609 Quarto.
This sonnet is part of the sequence dedicated to the Fair Youth. The Bard tells how obvious the boy’s beauty is to everyone, even those who consider themselves his enemy. But some people look into the youth’s heart and notice that the “smell” doesn’t match his appeara...

Sonnet 69 Annotated

Those parts of thee that the world's eye doth view
Want nothing that the thought of hearts can mend;
All tongues, the voice of souls, give thee that due,
Uttering bare truth, even so as foes commend.
Thy outward thus with outward praise is crown'd;
But those same tongues, that give thee so thine own,
In other accents do this praise confound
By seeing farther than the eye hath shown.
They look into the beauty of thy mind,
And that in guess they measure by thy deeds;
Then, churls, their thoughts, although their eyes were kind,
To thy fair flower add the rank smell of weeds:
But why thy odour matcheth not thy show,
The soil is this, that thou dost common grow.

Sonnet 69 Q&A

Who wrote Sonnet 69's ?

Sonnet 69 was written by William Shakespeare.

When did William Shakespeare release Sonnet 69?

William Shakespeare released Sonnet 69 on Thu Jan 01 1609.

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