From fairest creatures - Gray, Michael

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"This is from a collection in progress called "Book of Sonnets""

◈ Genre → Partsongs

♯ Key C major

♬ Voicing → SAB

◆ Difficulty

Intermediate

↕ Range C1 – A5

¶ Language → English

Measures 64

Texture Homophonic

Parts 4

Instruments Piano

Pages 6

CPDL # 41336

Editor Michael Gray

Posted 2016-10-07

License Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives

♫Pitch Ranges

Soprano Alto

C3 – F5

Baritone

A2 – D4

MusicXML Part

C1 – A4

¶Lyrics / Text

From fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beauty's rose might never die, But as the riper should by time decrease, 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.