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William Shakespeare - Sonnet 1

This is the first of 154 Sonnets of William Shakespeare, published in 1609. Sonnet 1 is regarded as one of the procreation sonnets, which are directed towards a young man, pleading him to procreate, as seen here. Here the young man is described as being beautiful and is asked to use his beauty in order to pass it on before it is too late. The structure of the sonnet is a classic English/shakespearean one, three verses and a heroic couplet in a iambic pentametre, rhyming scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. Feel free to use this video for your personal studies or eben a school presentation or seminar paper! Subscribe while you can! Text: 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, 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, mak’st waste in niggarding. Pity the world, or else this glutton be, To eat the world’s due, by the grave and thee.