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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,
 
- Feed'st thy light'st 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 gaudy spring,
 
- Within thine own bud buriest thy content
 
- And, tender churl, makest waste in niggarding.
 
- Pity the world, or else this glutton be,
 
- To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee.
 
- When forty winters shall beseige thy brow,
 
- And dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field,
 
- Thy youth's proud livery, so gazed on now,
 
- Will be a tatter'd weed, of small worth held:
 
- Then being ask'd 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 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!
 
- This were to be new made when thou art old,
 
- And see thy blood warm when thou feel'st it cold.
 
- 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 unear'd 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, remember'd not to be,
 
- Die single, and thine image dies with thee.
 
- Unthrifty loveliness, why dost 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 niggard, why dost thou abuse
 
- The bounteous largess given thee to give?
 
- Profitless usurer, why dost thou use
 
- So great a sum of sums, yet canst not live?
 
- For having traffic with thyself alone,
 
- Thou of thyself 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 tomb'd with thee,
 
- Which, used, lives th' executor to be.
 
- 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 cheque'd with frost and lusty leaves quite gone,
 
- Beauty o'ersnow'd and bareness every where:
 
- 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 distill'd though they with winter meet,
 
- Leese but their show; their substance still lives sweet.
 
- Then let not winter's ragged hand deface
 
- In thee thy summer, ere thou be distill'd:
 
- Make sweet some vial; treasure thou some place
 
- With beauty's treasure, ere it be self-kill'd.
 
- That use is not forbidden usury,
 
- Which happies 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 refigured thee:
 
- Then what could death do, if thou shouldst depart,
 
- Leaving thee living in posterity?
 
- Be not self-will'd, for thou art much too fair
 
- To be death's conquest and make worms thine heir.
 
- Lo! 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;
 
- And having climb'd the steep-up heavenly hill,
 
- Resembling strong youth in his middle age,
 
- yet mortal looks adore his beauty still,
 
- Attending on his golden pilgrimage;
 
- But when from highmost pitch, with weary car,
 
- Like feeble age, he reeleth from the day,
 
- The eyes, 'fore duteous, now converted are
 
- From his low tract and look another way:
 
- So thou, thyself out-going in thy noon,
 
- Unlook'd on diest, unless thou get a son.
 
- Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?
 
- Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy.
 
- Why lovest thou that which thou receivest not gladly,
 
- Or else receivest with pleasure thine annoy?
 
- If the true concord of well-tuned sounds,
 
- By unions married, do offend thine ear,
 
- They do but sweetly chide thee, who confounds
 
- In singleness the parts that thou shouldst bear.
 
- Mark how one string, sweet husband to another,
 
- Strikes each in each by mutual ordering,
 
- Resembling sire and child and happy mother
 
- Who all in one, one pleasing note do sing:
 
- Whose speechless song, being many, seeming one,
 
- Sings this to thee: 'thou single wilt prove none.'
 
- Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye
 
- That thou consumest thyself in single life?
 
- Ah! if thou issueless shalt hap to die.
 
- The world will wail thee, like a makeless wife;
 
- 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 murderous shame commits.
 
- For shame! deny that thou bear'st love to any,
 
- Who for thyself art so unprovident.
 
- Grant, if thou wilt, thou art beloved of many,
 
- But that thou none lovest is most evident;
 
- For thou art so possess'd with murderous hate
 
- That 'gainst thyself 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 gentle love?
 
- Be, as thy presence is, gracious and kind,
 
- Or to thyself at least kind-hearted prove:
 
- Make thee another self, for love of me,
 
- That beauty still may live in thine or thee.
 
- As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou growest
 
- In one of thine, from that which thou departest;
 
- And that fresh blood which youngly thou bestowest
 
- Thou mayst call thine when thou from youth convertest.
 
- Herein lives wisdom, beauty and increase:
 
- Without this, folly, age and cold decay:
 
- If all were minded so, the times should cease
 
- And threescore year would make the world away.
 
- Let those whom Nature hath not made for store,
 
- Harsh featureless and rude, barrenly perish:
 
- Look, whom she best endow'd she gave the more;
 
- Which bounteous gift thou shouldst in bounty cherish:
 
- She carved thee for her seal, and meant thereby
 
- Thou shouldst print more, not let that copy die.
 
- When I do count the clock that tells the time,
 
- And see the brave day sunk in hideous night;
 
- When I behold the violet past prime,
 
- And sable curls all silver'd o'er with white;
 
- When lofty trees I see barren of leaves
 
- Which erst from heat did canopy the herd,
 
- And summer's green all girded up in sheaves
 
- Borne on the bier with white and bristly beard,
 
- Then of thy beauty do I question make,
 
- That thou among the wastes of time must go,
 
- Since sweets and beauties do themselves forsake
 
- And die as fast as they see others grow;
 
- And nothing 'gainst Time's scythe can make defence
 
- Save breed, to brave him when he takes thee hence.
 
- O, that you were yourself! but, love, you are
 
- No longer yours than you yourself here live:
 
- Against this coming end you should prepare,
 
- And your sweet semblance to some other give.
 
- So should that beauty which you hold in lease
 
- Find no determination: then you were
 
- Yourself again after yourself's decease,
 
- When your sweet issue your sweet form should bear.
 
- Who lets so fair a house fall to decay,
 
- Which husbandry in honour might uphold
 
- Against the stormy gusts of winter's day
 
- And barren rage of death's eternal cold?
 
- O, none but unthrifts! Dear my love, you know
 
- You had a father: let your son say so.
 
- Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck;
 
- And yet methinks I have astronomy,
 
- But not to tell of good or evil luck,
 
- Of plagues, of dearths, or seasons' quality;
 
- Nor can I fortune to brief minutes tell,
 
- Pointing to each his thunder, rain and wind,
 
- Or say with princes if it shall go well,
 
- By oft predict that I in heaven find:
 
- But from thine eyes my knowledge I derive,
 
- And, constant stars, in them I read such art
 
- As truth and beauty shall together thrive,
 
- If from thyself to store thou wouldst convert;
 
- Or else of thee this I prognosticate:
 
- Thy end is truth's and beauty's doom and date.
 
- When I consider every thing that grows
 
- Holds in perfection but a little moment,
 
- That this huge stage presenteth nought but shows
 
- Whereon the stars in secret influence comment;
 
- When I perceive that men as plants increase,
 
- Cheered and cheque'd even by the self-same sky,
 
- Vaunt in their youthful sap, at height decrease,
 
- And wear their brave state out of memory;
 
- Then the conceit of this inconstant stay
 
- Sets you most rich in youth before my sight,
 
- Where wasteful Time debateth with Decay,
 
- To change your day of youth to sullied night;
 
- And all in war with Time for love of you,
 
- As he takes from you, I engraft you new.
 
- But wherefore do not you a mightier way
 
- Make war upon this bloody tyrant, Time?
 
- And fortify yourself in your decay
 
- With means more blessed than my barren rhyme?
 
- Now stand you on the top of happy hours,
 
- And many maiden gardens yet unset
 
- With virtuous wish would bear your living flowers,
 
- Much liker than your painted counterfeit:
 
- So should the lines of life that life repair,
 
- Which this, Time's pencil, or my pupil pen,
 
- Neither in inward worth nor outward fair,
 
- Can make you live yourself in eyes of men.
 
- To give away yourself keeps yourself still,
 
- And you must live, drawn by your own sweet skill.
 
- Who will believe my verse in time to come,
 
- If it were fill'd with your most high deserts?
 
- Though yet, heaven knows, it is but as a tomb
 
- Which hides your life and shows not half your parts.
 
- If I could write the beauty of your eyes
 
- And in fresh numbers number all your graces,
 
- The age to come would say 'This poet lies:
 
- Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.'
 
- So should my papers yellow'd with their age
 
- Be scorn'd like old men of less truth than tongue,
 
- And your true rights be term'd a poet's rage
 
- And stretched metre of an antique song:
 
- But were some child of yours alive that time,
 
- You should live twice; in it and in my rhyme.
 
- Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
 
- Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
 
- Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
 
- And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
 
- Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
 
- And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
 
- And every fair from fair sometime declines,
 
- By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
 
- But thy eternal summer shall not fade
 
- Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
 
- Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
 
- When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
 
- So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
 
- So long lives this and this gives life to thee.
 
- Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws,
 
- And make the earth devour her own sweet brood;
 
- Pluck the keen teeth from the fierce tiger's jaws,
 
- And burn the long-lived phoenix in her blood;
 
- Make glad and sorry seasons as thou fleets,
 
- And do whate'er thou wilt, swift-footed Time,
 
- To the wide world and all her fading sweets;
 
- But I forbid thee one most heinous crime:
 
- O, carve not with thy hours my love's fair brow,
 
- Nor draw no lines there with thine antique pen;
 
- Him in thy course untainted do allow
 
- For beauty's pattern to succeeding men.
 
- Yet, do thy worst, old Time: despite thy wrong,
 
- My love shall in my verse ever live young.
 
- A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted
 
- Hast thou, the master-mistress of my passion;
 
- A woman's gentle heart, but not acquainted
 
- With shifting change, as is false women's fashion;
 
- An eye more bright than theirs, less false in rolling,
 
- Gilding the object whereupon it gazeth;
 
- A man in hue, all 'hues' in his controlling,
 
- Much steals men's eyes and women's souls amazeth.
 
- And for a woman wert thou first created;
 
- Till Nature, as she wrought thee, fell a-doting,
 
- And by addition me of thee defeated,
 
- By adding one thing to my purpose nothing.
 
- But since she prick'd thee out for women's pleasure,
 
- Mine be thy love and thy love's use their treasure.
 
- So is it not with me as with that Muse
 
- Stirr'd by a painted beauty to his verse,
 
- Who heaven itself for ornament doth use
 
- And every fair with his fair doth rehearse
 
- Making a couplement of proud compare,
 
- With sun and moon, with earth and sea's rich gems,
 
- With April's first-born flowers, and all things rare
 
- That heaven's air in this huge rondure hems.
 
- O' let me, true in love, but truly write,
 
- And then believe me, my love is as fair
 
- As any mother's child, though not so bright
 
- As those gold candles fix'd in heaven's air:
 
- Let them say more than like of hearsay well;
 
- I will not praise that purpose not to sell.
 
- My glass shall not persuade me I am old,
 
- So long as youth and thou are of one date;
 
- But when in thee time's furrows I behold,
 
- Then look I death my days should expiate.
 
- For all that beauty that doth cover thee
 
- Is but the seemly raiment of my heart,
 
- Which in thy breast doth live, as thine in me:
 
- How can I then be elder than thou art?
 
- O, therefore, love, be of thyself so wary
 
- As I, not for myself, but for thee will;
 
- Bearing thy heart, which I will keep so chary
 
- As tender nurse her babe from faring ill.
 
- Presume not on thy heart when mine is slain;
 
- Thou gavest me thine, not to give back again.
 
- As an unperfect actor on the stage
 
- Who with his fear is put besides his part,
 
- Or some fierce thing replete with too much rage,
 
- Whose strength's abundance weakens his own heart.
 
- So I, for fear of trust, forget to say
 
- The perfect ceremony of love's rite,
 
- And in mine own love's strength seem to decay,
 
- O'ercharged with burden of mine own love's might.
 
- O, let my books be then the eloquence
 
- And dumb presagers of my speaking breast,
 
- Who plead for love and look for recompense
 
- More than that tongue that more hath more express'd.
 
- O, learn to read what silent love hath writ:
 
- To hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit.
 
- Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stell'd
 
- Thy beauty's form in table of my heart;
 
- My body is the frame wherein 'tis held,
 
- And perspective it is the painter's art.
 
- For through the painter must you see his skill,
 
- To find where your true image pictured lies;
 
- Which in my bosom's shop is hanging still,
 
- That hath his windows glazed with thine eyes.
 
- Now see what good turns eyes for eyes have done:
 
- Mine eyes have drawn thy shape, and thine for me
 
- Are windows to my breast, where-through the sun
 
- Delights to peep, to gaze therein on thee;
 
- Yet eyes this cunning want to grace their art;
 
- They draw but what they see, know not the heart.
 
- Let those who are in favour with their stars
 
- Of public honour and proud titles boast,
 
- Whilst I, whom fortune of such triumph bars,
 
- Unlook'd for joy in that I honour most.
 
- Great princes' favourites their fair leaves spread
 
- But as the marigold at the sun's eye,
 
- And in themselves their pride lies buried,
 
- For at a frown they in their glory die.
 
- The painful warrior famoused for fight,
 
- After a thousand victories once foil'd,
 
- Is from the book of honour razed quite,
 
- And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd:
 
- Then happy I, that love and am beloved
 
- Where I may not remove nor be removed.
 
- Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage
 
- Thy merit hath my duty strongly knit,
 
- To thee I send this written embassage,
 
- To witness duty, not to show my wit:
 
- Duty so great, which wit so poor as mine
 
- May make seem bare, in wanting words to show it,
 
- But that I hope some good conceit of thine
 
- In thy soul's thought, all naked, will bestow it;
 
- Till whatsoever star that guides my moving
 
- Points on me graciously with fair aspect
 
- And puts apparel on my tatter'd loving,
 
- To show me worthy of thy sweet respect:
 
- Then may I dare to boast how I do love thee;
 
- Till then not show my head where thou mayst prove me.
 
- Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed,
 
- The dear repose for limbs with travel tired;
 
- But then begins a journey in my head,
 
- To work my mind, when body's work's expired:
 
- For then my thoughts, from far where I abide,
 
- Intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee,
 
- And keep my drooping eyelids open wide,
 
- Looking on darkness which the blind do see
 
- Save that my soul's imaginary sight
 
- Presents thy shadow to my sightless view,
 
- Which, like a jewel hung in ghastly night,
 
- Makes black night beauteous and her old face new.
 
- Lo! thus, by day my limbs, by night my mind,
 
- For thee and for myself no quiet find.
 
- How can I then return in happy plight,
 
- That am debarr'd the benefit of rest?
 
- When day's oppression is not eased by night,
 
- But day by night, and night by day, oppress'd?
 
- And each, though enemies to either's reign,
 
- Do in consent shake hands to torture me;
 
- The one by toil, the other to complain
 
- How far I toil, still farther off from thee.
 
- I tell the day, to please them thou art bright
 
- And dost him grace when clouds do blot the heaven:
 
- So flatter I the swart-complexion'd night,
 
- When sparkling stars twire not thou gild'st the even.
 
- But day doth daily draw my sorrows longer
 
- And night doth nightly make grief's strength seem stronger.
 
- When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes,
 
- I all alone beweep my outcast state
 
- And trouble deal heaven with my bootless cries
 
- And look upon myself and curse my fate,
 
- Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
 
- Featured like him, like him with friends possess'd,
 
- Desiring this man's art and that man's scope,
 
- With what I most enjoy contented least;
 
- Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
 
- Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
 
- Like to the lark at break of day arising
 
- From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate;
 
- For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings
 
- That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
 
- When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
 
- I summon up remembrance of things past,
 
- I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
 
- And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste:
 
- Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow,
 
- For precious friends hid in death's dateless night,
 
- And weep afresh love's long since cancell'd woe,
 
- And moan the expense of many a vanish'd sight:
 
- Then can I grieve at grievances foregone,
 
- And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er
 
- The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan,
 
- Which I new pay as if not paid before.
 
- But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
 
- All losses are restored and sorrows end.
 
- Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts,
 
- Which I by lacking have supposed dead,
 
- And there reigns love and all love's loving parts,
 
- And all those friends which I thought buried.
 
- How many a holy and obsequious tear
 
- Hath dear religious love stol'n from mine eye
 
- As interest of the dead, which now appear
 
- But things removed that hidden in thee lie!
 
- Thou art the grave where buried love doth live,
 
- Hung with the trophies of my lovers gone,
 
- Who all their parts of me to thee did give;
 
- That due of many now is thine alone:
 
- Their images I loved I view in thee,
 
- And thou, all they, hast all the all of me.
 
- If thou survive my well-contented day,
 
- When that churl Death my bones with dust shall cover,
 
- And shalt by fortune once more re-survey
 
- These poor rude lines of thy deceased lover,
 
- Compare them with the bettering of the time,
 
- And though they be outstripp'd by every pen,
 
- Reserve them for my love, not for their rhyme,
 
- Exceeded by the height of happier men.
 
- O, then vouchsafe me but this loving thought:
 
- 'Had my friend's Muse grown with this growing age,
 
- A dearer birth than this his love had brought,
 
- To march in ranks of better equipage:
 
- But since he died and poets better prove,
 
- Theirs for their style I'll read, his for his love.'
 
- Full many a glorious morning have I seen
 
- Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye,
 
- Kissing with golden face the meadows green,
 
- Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy;
 
- Anon permit the basest clouds to ride
 
- With ugly rack on his celestial face,
 
- And from the forlorn world his visage hide,
 
- Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace:
 
- Even so my sun one early morn did shine
 
- With all triumphant splendor on my brow;
 
- But out, alack! he was but one hour mine;
 
- The region cloud hath mask'd him from me now.
 
- Yet him for this my love no whit disdaineth;
 
- Suns of the world may stain when heaven's sun staineth.
 
- Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day,
 
- And make me travel forth without my cloak,
 
- To let base clouds o'ertake me in my way,
 
- Hiding thy bravery in their rotten smoke?
 
- 'Tis not enough that through the cloud thou break,
 
- To dry the rain on my storm-beaten face,
 
- For no man well of such a salve can speak
 
- That heals the wound and cures not the disgrace:
 
- Nor can thy shame give physic to my grief;
 
- Though thou repent, yet I have still the loss:
 
- The offender's sorrow lends but weak relief
 
- To him that bears the strong offence's cross.
 
- Ah! but those tears are pearl which thy love sheds,
 
- And they are rich and ransom all ill deeds.
 
- No more be grieved at that which thou hast done:
 
- Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud;
 
- Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun,
 
- And loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.
 
- All men make faults, and even I in this,
 
- Authorizing thy trespass with compare,
 
- Myself corrupting, salving thy amiss,
 
- Excusing thy sins more than thy sins are;
 
- For to thy sensual fault I bring in sense--
 
- Thy adverse party is thy advocate--
 
- And 'gainst myself a lawful plea commence:
 
- Such civil war is in my love and hate
 
- That I an accessary needs must be
 
- To that sweet thief which sourly robs from me.
 
- Let me confess that we two must be twain,
 
- Although our undivided loves are one:
 
- So shall those blots that do with me remain
 
- Without thy help by me be borne alone.
 
- In our two loves there is but one respect,
 
- Though in our lives a separable spite,
 
- Which though it alter not love's sole effect,
 
- Yet doth it steal sweet hours from love's delight.
 
- I may not evermore acknowledge thee,
 
- Lest my bewailed guilt should do thee shame,
 
- Nor thou with public kindness honour me,
 
- Unless thou take that honour from thy name:
 
- But do not so; I love thee in such sort
 
- As, thou being mine, mine is thy good report.
 
- As a decrepit father takes delight
 
- To see his active child do deeds of youth,
 
- So I, made lame by fortune's dearest spite,
 
- Take all my comfort of thy worth and truth.
 
- For whether beauty, birth, or wealth, or wit,
 
- Or any of these all, or all, or more,
 
- Entitled in thy parts do crowned sit,
 
- I make my love engrafted to this store:
 
- So then I am not lame, poor, nor despised,
 
- Whilst that this shadow doth such substance give
 
- That I in thy abundance am sufficed
 
- And by a part of all thy glory live.
 
- Look, what is best, that best I wish in thee:
 
- This wish I have; then ten times happy me!
 
 
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