Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments; love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O, no, it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wand'ring bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
7 comments:
i think i had to memorize that in my english class...
And did you memorize it?
That's one of the good ones.
I love the exercise reading poems puts my mind through!
It seems I memorized this, by choice, for my Shakespeare class in college. I wish I could understand it better though.
As Shrek would say, "Poems are like onions; there Have many layers." What is your understanding of it now?
thats really pretty even though i don't understand any of it. we had to read romeo and juliet last year and then merchant of venice this year, oh man was i confused. i guess you have to be smart to understand shakespeare. i like the movie shakespeare in love though.
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