fairest creatures -- most beautiful people
increase -- to have children
beauty’s rose -- beauty likened to a rose
riper-- someone grown older
decease -- to die
tender heir -- a gentle or beloved child
contracted to thine own bright eyes -- in love with yourself
self-substantial fuel -- feeding your flame with your own self
famine where abundance lies -- scarcity created by selfishness
thyself thy foe -- being your own enemy
sweet self too cruel -- cruel to your own beauty
world’s fresh ornament -- new and admired beauty
herald to the gaudy spring -- a bright sign of spring’s arrival
buriest thy content -- hiding your gifts
tender churl --a sweet but selfish person
waste in niggarding -- wasting by being stingy
Pity the world -- share your beauty
glutton -- greedy person
eat the world’s due* -- consume what should be shared
by the grave and thee -- beauty dies with you