From fairest creatures we desire increaseDefinitionProcreation / Offspring,
That thereby beauty's rose might never die,
But as the riper should by time deceaseDefinitionDie / Pass away,
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 gaudyDefinitionBrilliantly fine / Showy spring,
Within thine own bud buriest thy content
And, tender churlDefinitionA young person who is miserly/stingy with their beauty., makest waste in niggarding.
Pity the world, or else this glutton be,
To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee.