Shakespeare's Sonnet I: "From fairest creatures we desire increase"
Denise Centkowski
Professor Costigan
English 102 EB (T/Th 5:30PM)
May 2003
SONNET I
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,
Thy self thy foe, to they sweet self too cruel:
Thou that art now …
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