Sonnet #116

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Sonnet #116

CXVI.br /br /Let me not to the marriage of true mindsbr /Admit impediments. Love is not lovebr /Which alters when it alteration finds,br /Or bends with the remover to remove:br /O no! it is an ever-fixed markbr /That looks on tempests and is never shaken;br /It is the star to every wandering bark,br /Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.br /Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeksbr /Within his bending sickle's compass come:br /Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,br /But bears it out even to the edge of doom.br /If this be error and upon me proved,br /I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

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[mutantdogs]

my favourite poem of all time

[kenox]

please help me

[kelby_lake]

Quoted in One Tree Hill!

[jet.thursday]

we discussed this sonnet in school and i've always loved this since then ^o^

[magzarelli]

Yeah i noticed that today!

Quoted in One Tree Hill!

[Lote-Tree]

If this be error and upon me proved
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Sorry Bardy Baby...it's been proven an error...sorry...blame it on Oxytocin!

[Il Dante]

This is one of my all-time favorite sonnets from the bard. His observation that "love is not love / which alters when alteration finds / nor bends with the remover to remove" is such a gem of wisdom. Some say they love another, and yet that love is fickle. Such love is not love.

The Bard at his best.

[soundofmusic]

Thank you for reminding us of this lovely poem.

[totyfroty]

It's my favorite

Thanks for posting it

[Sebas. Melmoth]

This was the Sonnet referenced in the beautiful film Sense and Sensibility.
See:
http://www.amazon.com/Great-CINEMATO...hor_title_full


My personal favourite Sonnet is No. 30:

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past...
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But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restored and sorrows end.