Sonnet 1

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.
In William Shakespeare's "Sonnet One", Shakespeare writes about a person's decision to not have children. The reason for this is self absorbency. The person described in this poem is what you call conceited, full of them self. But what he does not understand is the importance of having his


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