Shakespeare's Sonnet I: "From fairest creatures we desire increase"

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Denise Centkowski Professor Costigan English 102 EB (T/Th 5:30PM) May 2003 SONNET I 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 they sweet self too cruel: Thou that art now …

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