Shakespeare’s Sonnets

Shakespeare’s Sonnets

From fa fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beautys rose might never die, But as the riper should by time decease, His tender heir might bear his memory: But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, Feedst thy lights flame with self-substantial fuel, Making a famine where abundance lies, Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel: Thou that art now the worlds fresh ornament, And only herald to the gaudy spring, Within thine own bud buriest thy content, And tender churl makst waste in niggarding: Pity the world, or else this glutton be, To eat the worlds due, by the grave and thee.