# The Sonnets

Author: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616

Genre: Category: Poetry

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1105

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Sonnets+Shakespeare&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

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's 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 world's fresh ornament, And only herald to the gaudy spring, Within thine own bud buriest thy content, And tender churl mak'st waste in niggarding: Pity the world, or else this glutton be, To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee.

## Chapters

- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sonnets-1105/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sonnets-1105/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sonnets-1105/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sonnets-1105/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sonnets-1105/chapters/5/index.md)