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sonnets 1 to 10 of shakespeare's sonnets this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org recording by chris hughes reader.blogspot.com

shakespeare sonnets by william shakespeare sonnets 1 to ten

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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 feeds thy light's 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 gordy spring within thine own bud buriest i content and tender chill makes waste in [ __ ] ding pity the world or else this glutton bee to eat the world's dew by the grave and thee

two when forty winters shall besiege thy brow and dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field thy youth's 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 deserve thy beauty's use if thou could answer this fair child of mine shall sum my count and make my old excuse proving his beauty by succession thine this were to be new made when thou art old and see thy blood warm when thou feast it cold

3. look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest now is the time that face should form another whose fresh repair if now thou not renewest thou dost beguile the world unbless some mother for where is she so fair whose unearthed womb disdains the tillage of thy husbandry or who is he so fond will be the tomb of his self-love to stop posterity thou art thy mother's glass and she in thee calls back the lovely april of her prime so thou through windows of thine age shall see despite of wrinkles this thy golden time but if thou live remembered not to be die single and thine image dies with thee

4. unthrifty loveliness why doest thou spend upon thyself thy beauty's legacy nature's bequest gives nothing but doth lend and being frank she lends to those are free then beauteous [ __ ] why does thou abuse the bountiest largest given thee to give profitless usura why doest thou you so great a sum of sums yet canst not live for having traffic with thyself alone thou of thyself thy sweet self does deceive then how when nature calls thee to be gone what acceptable order cast thou leave thy unused beauty must be tombed with thee which used lives the executor to be

five those hours that with gentle work did frame the lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell will play the tyrants to the very same and that unfair which fairly doth excel for never resting time leads summer on to hideous winter and confounds him there sap checked with frost and lusty leaves quite gone beauty or snowed and bareness everywhere then were not summer's distillation left a liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass beauty's effect with beauty were bereft nor it nor no remembrance what it was but flowers distilled though they with winter meet least but their show their substance still lives sweet six

then let not winter's ragged hand to face in thee thy summer air thou be distilled make sweet some vile treasure thou some place with beauty's treasure ered be self killed that use is not forbidden usually which happens those that pay the willing loan that's for thyself to breed another thee or ten times happier be it ten for one ten times thyself were happier than thou art if ten of thine ten times re-figured thee then what could death do if thou should depart leaving the living in posterity be not self-willed for thou art much too fair to be death's conquest and...