Sonnet 1

From fairest creatures we desire increase,
That thereby beauty's 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,
Feed'st thy light'st 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 world's fresh ornament
And only herald to the gaudy spring,
Within thine own bud buriest thy content

And, tender churl, makest waste in niggarding.
Pity the world, or else this glutton be,
To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee. 

Submited by

Tuesday, July 12, 2011 - 01:38

Poesia Consagrada :

  • Login to post comments
  • 4155 reads
No votes yet

Shakespeare

Shakespeare's picture
Offline
Title: Membro
Last seen: 13 years 22 weeks ago
Joined: 10/14/2008
Posts:
Points: 410

Add comment

Login to post comments

other contents of Shakespeare

Topic Title Repliessort icon Views Last Post Language
Poesia Consagrada/Sonnet Sonnet 111: O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide 0 3.561 07/12/2011 - 02:01 English
Poesia Consagrada/Sonnet Sonnet 112: Your love and pity doth th' impression fill 0 3.707 07/12/2011 - 02:02 English
Poesia Consagrada/Sonnet Sonnet 113: Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind 0 3.729 07/12/2011 - 02:04 English
Poesia Consagrada/Sonnet Sonnet 114: Or whether doth my mind, being crowned with you 0 4.130 07/12/2011 - 02:05 English
Poesia Consagrada/Sonnet Sonnet 115: Those lines that I before have writ do lie 0 4.005 07/12/2011 - 02:06 English
Poesia Consagrada/Sonnet Sonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds 0 3.897 07/12/2011 - 02:07 English
Poesia Consagrada/Sonnet Sonnet 118: Like as to make our appetite more keen 0 3.722 07/12/2011 - 02:09 English
Poesia Consagrada/Sonnet Sonnet 119: What potions have I drunk of Siren tears 0 4.085 07/12/2011 - 02:12 English
Poesia Consagrada/Sonnet Sonnet 12: When I do count the clock that tells the time 0 6.233 07/12/2011 - 02:13 English
Poesia/Aphorism The Lunatic... 1 1.294 03/02/2010 - 04:38 Portuguese
Prosas/Drama Romeu e Julieta- Sinopse 1 6.117 10/14/2008 - 19:53 Portuguese