By William Shakespeare
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's flame with
self-substantial fuel,
Making a famine where
abundance lies,
Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet
self too cruel.
Thout that are now the
world's fresh ornament
And only herald to the gaudy
spring,
Within thin