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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Sonnet 61 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. Shakespeare's sonnets are 154
poems in sonnet form written by William Shakespeare that deal with such
themes as the passage of time, love, beauty and mortality. All but two
of the poems were first published in a 1609 quarto entitled
SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS.: Never before imprinted. Sonnets 138 and 144 had
previously been published in a 1599 miscellany entitled The Passionate
Pilgrim. The quarto ends with "A Lover's Complaint", a narrative poem of
47 seven-line stanzas written in rhyme royal.
