Sonnet 74

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Album Sonnets

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William Shakespeare

1609

Sonnet 74 by William Shakespeare

Release Date

Wed May 20 1609

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William Shakespeare

About

Sonnet 74 in the 1609 Quarto.

This sonnet belongs to the sequence dedicated to the “Fair Youth”. Like the four that precede it, it deals with the subject of a mature man, the speaker, loving a beautiful boy, and the impact of his own impending death on the one left behind.

The Bard asserts that h...

Sonnet 74 Annotated

But be contented when that fell arrest
Without all bail shall carry me away,
My life hath in this line some interest,
Which for memorial still with thee shall stay.
When thou reviewest this, thou dost review
The very part was consecrate to thee:
The earth can have but earth, which is his due;
My spirit is thine, the better part of me:
So then thou hast but lost the dregs of life,
The prey of worms, my body being dead;
The coward conquest of a wretch's knife,
Too base of thee to be remembered.
The worth of that is that which it contains,
And that is this, and this with thee remains.

Sonnet 74 Q&A

Who wrote Sonnet 74's ?

Sonnet 74 was written by William Shakespeare.

When did William Shakespeare release Sonnet 74?

William Shakespeare released Sonnet 74 on Wed May 20 1609.

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