Sonnet 80

William Shakespeare * Track #80 On Sonnets

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William Shakespeare

1609

Sonnet 80 by William Shakespeare

Release Date

Thu Jan 01 1609

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William Shakespeare

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This sonnet continues to focus on the rival poet who troubled the Bard in Sonnet 79, but marks a slight progression, too.

Werner Habicht sums it up:

He begins to accept the challenge, to see and to grapple with the paradox of inexpressibility, to consider the weight and the relative value of speec...

Sonnet 80 Annotated

O! how I faint when I of you do write,
Knowing a better spirit doth use your name,
And in the praise thereof spends all his might,
To make me tongue-tied speaking of your fame.
But since your worth, wide as the ocean is,
The humble as the proudest sail doth bear,
My saucy bark, inferior far to his,
On your broad main doth wilfully appear.
Your shallowest help will hold me up afloat,
Whilst he upon your soundless deep doth ride;
Or, being wracked, I am a worthless boat,
He of tall building, and of goodly pride:
Then if he thrive and I be cast away,
The worst was this, my love was my decay.

Sonnet 80 Q&A

Who wrote Sonnet 80's ?

Sonnet 80 was written by William Shakespeare.

When did William Shakespeare release Sonnet 80?

William Shakespeare released Sonnet 80 on Thu Jan 01 1609.

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