Sonnet 72

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Album Sonnets

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William Shakespeare

1609

Sonnet 72 by William Shakespeare

Release Date

Thu Jan 01 1609

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William Shakespeare

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Sonnet 72 from the 1609 Quarto.

This is another sonnet in the sequence dedicated to the Fair Youth. The identity of the young man isn’t known although there have been several speculations.

The subject of the sonnet follows on from Sonnet 71, in which Shakespeare urges the boy not to mourn when he,...

Sonnet 72 Annotated

O! lest the world should task you to recite
What merit lived in me, that you should love
After my death,--dear love, forget me quite,
For you in me can nothing worthy prove.
Unless you would devise some virtuous lie,
To do more for me than mine own desert,
And hang more praise upon deceased I
Than niggard truth would willingly impart:
O! lest your true love may seem false in this
That you for love speak well of me untrue,
My name be buried where my body is,
And live no more to shame nor me nor you.
For I am shamed by that which I bring forth,
And so should you, to love things nothing worth.

Sonnet 72 Q&A

Who wrote Sonnet 72's ?

Sonnet 72 was written by William Shakespeare.

When did William Shakespeare release Sonnet 72?

William Shakespeare released Sonnet 72 on Thu Jan 01 1609.

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