Shakespeare Sonnet 094 - They that have power to hurt, and will do none

As I've got more into poetry reading again, I decided to do Shakespeare's sonnets, all 154 of them. Usually Shakespeare's sonnets are presented out of order and context, but many of them are even clearly intended to be read together, and so it makes sense to do every single one.

Many of them have slightly ambiguous or inconsistent rhythm, making them more difficult to read and opening them up to some rhythmic interpretation. Just like the sonnets themselves are not perfect, nor will my reading of them be.

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They that have power to hurt, and will do none,
That do not do the thing they most do show,
Who, moving others, are themselves as stone,
Unmoved, cold, and to temptation slow;
They rightly do inherit heaven's graces,
And husband nature's riches from expense;
They are the lords and owners of their faces,
Others, but stewards of their excellence.
The summer's flower is to the summer sweet,
Though to itself, it only live and die,
But if that flower with base infection meet,
The basest weed outbraves his dignity:
For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;
Lilies that fester, smell far worse than weeds.

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