Sonnet 81

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Album Sonnets

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William Shakespeare

1609

Sonnet 81 by William Shakespeare

Release Date

Thu Jan 01 1609

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William Shakespeare

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Sonnet 81 from the 1609 Quarto.

In this sonnet Shakespeare continues a theme begun earlier about the role of verse in perpetuating the memory of the Fair Youth. He knows that the boy will outlive himself, an older lover, but believes the young man will be remembered by future generations, because...

Sonnet 81 Annotated

Or I shall live your epitaph to make,
Or you survive when I in earth am rotten,
From hence your memory death cannot take,
Although in me each part will be forgotten.
Your name from hence immortal life shall have,
Though I, once gone, to all the world must die:
The earth can yield me but a common grave,
When you entombed in men's eyes shall lie.
Your monument shall be my gentle verse,
Which eyes not yet created shall o'er-read;
And tongues to be your being shall rehearse,
When all the breathers of this world are dead;
You still shall live, such virtue hath my pen,
Where breath most breathes, even in the mouths of men.

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Who wrote Sonnet 81's ?

Sonnet 81 was written by William Shakespeare.

When did William Shakespeare release Sonnet 81?

William Shakespeare released Sonnet 81 on Thu Jan 01 1609.

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