What is the first line of Shakespeares sonnet?

Answer 1

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 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.

Answer 2

As in virtually all of Shakespeare's sonnets, the first four lines form a quatrain with an ABAB rhyme scheme: "sun" in line 1 rhymes "dun" in line 3 and "red" in line 2 rhymes "head" in line 4.

Answer 3

The below quoted Sonnet is the first one in the collection which was published in 1609. That does not mean, however that it was necessarily the first sonnet in the collection he wrote, as they may not have been arranged in order of composition. In addition, he may have written unpublished sonnets before any of the ones which were published.

Answer 4

Shakespeare wrote several sonnets, you would have to be more specific.

Answer 5

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day.

Answer 6

"When in the chronicle of wasted time"