Sonnet 83

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Album Sonnets

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William Shakespeare

1609

Sonnet 83 by William Shakespeare

Release Date

Thu Jan 01 1609

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William Shakespeare

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Sonnet 83 in the 1609 Quarto.

The speaker explains to the Fair Youth the reasons why he hasn’t described the boy clearly in his verse; he believes it would be impossible for him to convey adequately his beauty. Instead the Bard has downplayed his own passion. This is to the benefit of the boy, who...

Sonnet 83 Annotated

I never saw that you did painting need,
And therefore to your fair no painting set;
I found, or thought I found, you did exceed
The barren tender of a poet's debt:
And therefore have I slept in your report,
That you yourself, being extant, well might show
How far a modern quill doth come too short,
Speaking of worth, what worth in you doth grow.
This silence for my sin you did impute,
Which shall be most my glory being dumb;
For I impair not beauty being mute,
When others would give life, and bring a tomb.
There lives more life in one of your fair eyes
Than both your poets can in praise devise.

Sonnet 83 Q&A

Who wrote Sonnet 83's ?

Sonnet 83 was written by William Shakespeare.

When did William Shakespeare release Sonnet 83?

William Shakespeare released Sonnet 83 on Thu Jan 01 1609.

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