
Sonnet IV: Unthrifty Lovelines...

William Shakespeare
Sonnet IV: Unthrifty Loveliness, Why Dost Thou Spend
| William Shakespeare | |
| poetry |
Posted byAlexander Bennett04-Apr-2026
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Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend
Upon thy self thy beauty's legacy?
Nature's bequest gives nothing, but doth lend,
And being frank she lends to those are free:
Then, beauteous niggard, why dost thou abuse
The bounteous largess given thee to give?
Profitless usurer, why dost thou use
So great a sum of sums, yet canst not live?
For havin...
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