Sonnet 40: Take All My Loves, My Love, Yea, Take Them All Comments
Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all;
What hast thou then more than thou hadst before?
No love, my love, that thou mayst true love call;
All mine was thine, before thou hadst this more.
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THREE: Altogether, we as readers enjoy as much as Shakespeare did in his time while creating this, at least to my humble opinion
TWO: 'Take all my loves, my love, yes take them all'. In the following lines how Shakespeare's relationship with the fair youth has been changed by the 40th sonnet in the series.
ONE: Of all Shakespeare's Sonnets, Sonnet 40 is perhaps the most ruthlessly focused on 'love': the word itself recurs ten times in the sonnet, twice in the poem's opening line:
It is a great grief to bear love's wrong but not the injury of hate and let not lovers become foes says Shakespeare as a significant message here!
I do forgive thy robbery, gentle thief A great love poem penned by equally great poet. Thanks for sharing it here.
Absolute delight! Beautiful romantic piece with rendition of words to utmost justice. A lovely poem from the master.
The only one William Shakespeare! ! ! ! Thanks for sharing....
A Master stroke........Reading his poem is a joy and treat for heart and ears.
The usage of archaic form of words sounds interesting and stands unique from today's style of writing...one of Shakespeare's master-poems indeed
I cannot blame thee! Thanks for sharing this poem with us.
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7/19/2025 11:43:45 AM # 1.0.0
Interesting and confusion.