Sonnet 1, Yan Korolev, Timur Shahpandarov, Lyubov’ Shumkova, Ekaterinburg State Theatre Institute

Ekaterinburg State Theatre Institute Russia 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’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 thin