Sonnet CXVI: Let me not to the Marriage of True Minds
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Actor, dramatist, and poet, William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is the most highly regarded writer in the English language. Born in Stratford-Upon-Avon . . . MORE »
Actor, dramatist, and poet, William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is the most highly regarded writer in the English language. Born in Stratford-Upon-Avon . . . MORE »
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 prov'd,
I never writ, nor no man ever lov'd.