The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare (moboreader .TXT) π
The world will be thy widow and still weep,
That thou no form of thee hast left behind,
When every private widow well may keep,
By children's eyes, her husband's shape in mind:
Look what an unthrift in the world doth spend
Shifts but his place, for still the world enjoys it;
But beauty's waste hath in the world an end,
And kept unused the user so destroys it:
No love toward others in that bosom sits
That on himself such murd'rous shame commits.
10
For shame deny that thou bear'st love to any
Who for thy self art so unprovident.
Grant if thou wilt, thou art beloved of many,
But that thou none lov'st is most evident:
For thou art so possessed with murd'rous hate,
That 'gainst thy self thou stick'st not to conspire,
Seeking that beauteous roof to ruinate
Which to repair should be thy chief desire:
O change thy thought, that I may change my mind,
Shall hate be fairer lodged than
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1609
THE SONNETS
by William Shakespeare
1
From fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beautyβs 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, Feedβst thy lightβs 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 worldβs fresh ornament, And only herald to the gaudy spring,
Within thine own bud buriest thy content, And tender churl makβst waste in niggarding: Pity the world, or else this glutton be, To eat the worldβs due, by the grave and thee.
2
When forty winters shall besiege thy brow, And dig deep trenches in thy beautyβs field, Thy youthβs proud livery so gazed on now, Will be a tattered weed of small worth held: Then being asked, where all thy beauty lies, Where all the treasure of thy lusty days; To say within thine own deep sunken eyes, Were an all-eating shame, and thriftless praise.
How much more praise deserved thy beautyβs use, If thou couldst answer βThis fair child of mine Shall sum my count, and make my old excuseβ
Proving his beauty by succession thine.
This were to be new made when thou art old, And see thy blood warm when thou feelβst it cold.
3
Look in thy glass and tell the face
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