Sonnet 102 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...

. It's a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man.

Synopsis

Though seemimg to be cooler to the youth, the poet's love is actually stronger, even though he makes less show of it. Advertising one's feelings is to commercialise one's love. The poet wrote more verse in the earlier phase of their relationship, as birds sing more in the spring. Now that the spingtime has passed, song is less appropriate. So like the birds the poet now sings less frequently, lest his song seem dull and repetitive.