Sonnet 70

William Shakespeare * Track #70 On Sonnets

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Album Sonnets

ALBUM

William Shakespeare

1609

Sonnet 70 by William Shakespeare

Release Date

Thu Jan 01 1609

Performed by

William Shakespeare

About

Text from Sonnet 70 in the 1609 Quarto.

This sonnet is part of the sequence dedicated to the “Fair Youth”. This differs in mood and argument from some previous sonnets that have praised the young man whose beauty generated insecurity, jealousy and admiration in the Bard.

It explores the subject of...

Sonnet 70 Annotated

That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect,
For slander's mark was ever yet the fair;
The ornament of beauty is suspect,
A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air.
So thou be good, slander doth but approve
Thy worth the greater, being wooed of time;
For canker vice the sweetest buds doth love,
And thou present'st a pure unstained prime.
Thou hast passed by the ambush of young days
Either not assailed, or victor being charged;
Yet this thy praise cannot be so thy praise,
To tie up envy, evermore enlarged,
If some suspect of ill masked not thy show,
Then thou alone kingdoms of hearts shouldst owe.

Sonnet 70 Q&A

Who wrote Sonnet 70's ?

Sonnet 70 was written by William Shakespeare.

When did William Shakespeare release Sonnet 70?

William Shakespeare released Sonnet 70 on Thu Jan 01 1609.

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