Sonnet 97

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Album Sonnets

ALBUM

William Shakespeare

1609

Sonnet 97 by William Shakespeare

Release Date

Thu Jan 01 1609

Performed by

William Shakespeare

About

This sonnet is part of the sequence, numbers 1–126, dedicated to The Fair Youth. The identity of the young man is unknown to this day, although various possibilities have been speculated.

The speaker regards time spent away from the youth to be like winter’s despair and darkness, despite the rich...

Sonnet 97 Annotated

How like a winter hath my absence been
From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!
What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen!
What old December's bareness everywhere!
And yet this time removed was summer's time;
The teeming autumn, big with rich increase,
Bearing the wanton burden of the prime,
Like widow'd wombs after their lords' decease:
Yet this abundant issue seemed to me
But hope of orphans, and unfathered fruit;
For summer and his pleasures wait on thee,
And, thou away, the very birds are mute:
Or, if they sing, 'tis with so dull a cheer,
That leaves look pale, dreading the winter's near.

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Sonnet 97 was written by William Shakespeare.

When did William Shakespeare release Sonnet 97?

William Shakespeare released Sonnet 97 on Thu Jan 01 1609.

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