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Poem by William Shakespeare

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O! lest the world should task you to recite
What merit lived in me, that you should love
After my death,--dear love, forget me quite,
For you in me can nothing worthy prove.
Unless you would devise some virtuous lie,
To do more for me than mine own desert,
And hang more praise upon deceased I
Than niggard truth would willingly impart:
O! lest your true love may seem false in this
That you for love speak well of me untrue,
My name be buried where my body is,
And live no more to shame nor me nor you.
For I am shamed by that which I bring forth,
And so should you, to love things nothing worth.

Q1 Q2 Q3 C		4 8 12 14
	—William Shakespeare

Sonnet 72 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It's a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man.

Synopsis

This sonnet is part of a sequence in which the poet professes his own inadequacy to be the recipient of the Youth's love and devotion. He suggests that should he die, the Youth should not praise him for to do so would be to lose his own worth.

William Shakespeare

Plays

Comedies	All's Well That Ends Well As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Cymbeline Love's Labour's Lost Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer Night's Dream Much Ado About Nothing Pericles, Prince of Tyre ✻ The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Twelfth Night The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Two Noble Kinsmen ✻ The Winter's Tale
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Anne Hathaway (wife)
Susanna Hall (daughter)
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Elizabeth Barnard (granddaughter)
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"Fair Youth" sonnets

Procreation sonnets	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17

Rival Poet sonnets	78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86

"Envoy"	126

"Dark Lady" sonnets

"Anacreontics"	153 154

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