Thursday, May 15, 2008

Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare

Your PW editor is off to a wedding this weekend (and a much needed vacation). In that spirit, here's one of my favorite Shakespeare sonnets.


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-fixèd mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wand'ring bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his heighth 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.



William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

14 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

W.S is the all time Best!! None better than him...literally. The Father of all things literary.

12:45 AM  
Blogger Chandini Santosh said...

The old English palls at times, but what majestic thoughts!
As undergraduates we had a whole paper on Shakespeare.
Some lines are timeless - so are these.

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Blogger Scheyenne Zigzag said...

this guy is good. he should write more often.

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Blogger Mel said...

Love, the ancient and unrelenting topic of poet, musician, artist, man.
We have written about it since we learnt to write. Shakespeare’s, were some of the best.

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Blogger Jenn said...

"love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds"

I have that quote as my "motto" portion of my myspace page :)

Sonnet 116 is one of my favorite of his sonnets. They are so beautiful.

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Blogger Anchal the Ace said...

Love's no times fool !
what a wonderful way to say that Love is immortal !

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Blogger Kaustubh said...

How about the second part of the sonnet as an entry?

May be you also would like to add an entry to William Ernest Henley
http://www.poetry-archive.com/h/i_am_the_reaper.html

Cheers!!

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Anonymous Cynthiayhpk said...

"love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds" I have that quote as my "motto" portion of my myspace page :) Sonnet 116 is one of my favorite of his sonnets. They are so beautiful.

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