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Farewell, thou art too dear for my possessing. — William Shakespeare

Sonnet · Poem

Farewell, thou art too dear for my possessing.

William Shakespeare
Shakespeare's Sonnets · 1609
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Topic
Letting someone go
Statement type
Goodbye
Medium
SonnetPoem
Time
1609The Renaissance
Person
William Shakespeare
Provenance
Current citation
Shakespeare, William. "The Sonnets." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, sonnet 87.
Original citation
Shakespeare, William. Shake-speares Sonnets. London: Thomas Thorpe, 1609, sonnet 87, I. 1.

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