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beauty's rose might never die, But as the riper should by time decease, His tender heir might bear his memory:  \nBut 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:  \nThou that art now the world's fresh ornament, And only herald to the gaudy spring,  \nWithin thine own bud buriest thy content, And, tender churl, mak'st waste in niggarding:  \nPity the world, or else this glutton be,  \nTo eat the world's due, by the grave and thee.  \nII.  \nWhen 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 totter'd weed of small worth held:  \nThen being asked, where all thy beauty lies, Where all the treasure of thy lusty days;  \nTo say, within thine own deep sunken eyes, Were an all-eating shame, and thriftless praise. How much more praise deserv'd thy beauty's use, If thou couldst answer 'This fair child of mine Shall sum my count, and make my old excuse,'Proving his beauty by succession thine!  \nThis were to be new made when thou art old, And see thy blood warm when thou feel'st it cold.  \nIII.  \nLook 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 uneared womb Disdains the tillage of thy husbandry?  \nOr who is he so fond will be the tomb Of his self-love, to stop posterity?  \nThou art thy mother's glass and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime; So thou through windows of thine age shalt see, Despite of wrinkles, this thy golden time.  \nBut if thou live, remembered not to be, Die single and thine image dies with thee.  \nIV.  \nUnthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend Upon thy self thy beauty's legacy?  \nNature's bequest gives nothing, but doth lend, And being frank she lends to those are free:  \nThen, beauteous niggard, why dost thou abuse The bounteous largess given thee to give?  \nProfitless usurer, why dost thou use So great a sum of sums, yet canst not live? For having traffic with thy self alone,  \nThou of thy self thy sweet self dost deceive: Then how when nature calls thee to be gone, What acceptable audit canst thou leave? Thy unused beauty must be tombed with thee, Which, used, lives th' executor to be.  \nV.  \nThose 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;  \nFor never-resting time leads summer on To hideous winter, and confounds him there; Sap checked with frost, and lusty leaves quite gone, Beauty o'er-snowed and bareness every where:  \nThen were not summer's distillation left, A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass,  \nBeauty's effect with beauty were bereft, Nor it, nor no remembrance what it was:  \nBut flowers distilled, though they with winter meet, Leese but their show; their substance still lives sweet.  \nVI.  \nThen let not winter's ragged hand deface, In thee thy summer, ere thou be distilled:  \nMake sweet some vial; treasure thou some place With beauty's treasure ere it be self-killed.  \nThat use is not forbidden usury,  \nWhich happies those that pay the willing loan; That's for thy self to breed another thee, Or ten times happier, be it ten for one; Ten times thy self were happier than thou art, If ten of thine ten times refigured thee:  \nThen what could death do if thou shouldst depart, Leaving thee living in posterity?  \nBe not self-willed, for thou art much too fair  \nTo be death's conquest and make worms thine heir.  \nVII.  \nLo! in the orient when the gracious light Lifts up his burning head, each under eye Doth homage to his new-appearing sight, Serving with looks his sacred majesty","cbCailbiKkYcOFxB","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCailbiKkYcOFxB","pdf",600783,92,"English","# From fairest creatures we desire increase\n## When forty winters shall besiege thy brow\n## Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest\n## Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend\n## Those hours, that with gentle work did frame\n## Then let not winter's ragged hand deface\n## Lo! in the orient when the gracious light\n## Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly","[{\"question\":\"What is the main message of the early sonnets in this collection?\",\"answer\":\"The speaker urges the addressee to have children so beauty and memory will not die with the speaker’s own aging.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the poem use time and seasons to develop its argument?\",\"answer\":\"It contrasts summer and winter, showing that time can hide or ruin beauty, then proposes action—through offspring—to outlast that decline.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the speaker criticize self-love and keeping beauty unused?\",\"answer\":\"The poems frame self-absorption as wasteful, arguing that beauty should be “used” by creating a successor rather than being buried with the person.\"}]","Shakespeare's Sonnets - All Sonnets | PDF",1789946435,142]