• Shakespeare's Sonnet 71

  • Sep 1 2024
  • Length: 20 mins
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Shakespeare's Sonnet 71

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  • Shakespeare tells his lover to stop caring about him when he's dead. Easier said than done to be honest.


    Sonnet 71

    No longer mourn for me when I am dead
    Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell
    Give warning to the world that I am fled
    From this vile world with vilest worms to dwell:
    Nay, if you read this line, remember not
    The hand that writ it, for I love you so,
    That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot,
    If thinking on me then should make you woe.
    O! if, I say, you look upon this verse,
    When I perhaps compounded am with clay,
    Do not so much as my poor name rehearse;
    But let your love even with my life decay;
    Lest the wise world should look into your moan,
    And mock you with me after I am gone.
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