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The Sonnets I - From fairest creatures we desire increase

By William Shakespeare

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From 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,     Thy self 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.

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William Shakespeare

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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