Monday, January 13, 2003

Sonnet 10: For Shame, Deny That Thou Bear'st Love To Any Comments

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For shame, deny that thou bear'st love to any
Who for thy self art so unprovident.
Grant, if thou wilt, thou art beloved of many,
But that thou none lov'st is most evident;
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William Shakespeare
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* Sunprincess * 26 April 2016

.....nicely penned, I love the title ★

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Fabrizio Frosini 08 November 2015

This is a procreation sonnet within the Fair Youth sequence. In the sonnet, Shakespeare uses a rather harsh tone to admonish the young man for his refusal to fall in love and have children. It also continues and amplifies the theme of hatred against the world which appears rather suddenly in the last couplet of Sonnet 9. The two sonnets may be said therefore to be linked (like Sonnets 5 and 6 or Sonnets 15 and 16) even though the linkage takes a different form. [from Wikipedia]

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Brian Jani 26 April 2014

Awesome I like this poem, check mine out

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