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The Sonnets IX - Is it for fear to wet a widows eye

By William Shakespeare

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Is it for fear to wet a widows eye,     That thou consumst thy self in single life?     Ah! if thou issueless shalt hap to die,     The world will wail thee like a makeless wife;     The world will be thy widow and still weep     That thou no form of thee hast left behind,     When every private widow well may keep     By childrens eyes, her husbands shape in mind:     Look! what an unthrift in the world doth spend     Shifts but his place, for still the world enjoys it;     But beautys waste hath in the world an end,     And kept unused the user so destroys it.     No love toward others in that bosom sits     That on himself such murdrous shame commits.

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About William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) was an English playwright and poet widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language. He wrote 154 sonnets and narrative poems including "Venus and Adonis" and "The Rape of Lucrece," alongside 37 plays that remain central to world literature.

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