Notes
4] remover: the one who departs from love.
8] worth's unknown: man cannot grasp the star's heavenly worth and astrological infuence.
12] edge of doom: the brink of Doomsday.
Online text copyright © 2009, Ian Lancashire (the Department of English) and the University of Toronto.
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Original text: William Shakespeare, Shake-speares sonnets (London: G. Eld for T. T., 1609). STC 22353. Facs. edn.: London: J. Cape, 1925. PR 2750 B48 1609b ROBA.
First publication date:
1609
RPO poem editor: F. D. Hoeniger
RP edition: 3RP 1.143.
Recent editing: 2:2002/3/28
Form: sonnet
Rhyme: ababcdcdefefgg