Shakespeare's Sonnets Navigator | Summary of Sonnet 76 in the Table of Contents | Notes for Sonnet 76 |
1 Why is my verse so barren of new pride, 2 So far from variation or quick change? 3 Why with the time do I not glance aside 4 To new-found methods and to compounds strange? 5 Why write I still all one, ever the same, 6 And keep invention in a noted weed, 7 That every word doth almost tell my name, 8 Showing their birth and where they did proceed? 9 O, know, sweet love, I always write of you, 10 And you and love are still my argument; 11 So all my best is dressing old words new, 12 Spending again what is already spent: 13 For as the sun is daily new and old, 14 So is my love still telling what is told. |
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