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“Let me not to the marriage of true minds (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 wandering 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.
No collection of romantic poems would be complete without at least one of William Shakespeare’s iconic love sonnets. First published in 1609, “Sonnet 116” stresses that true love should not change or fade with time, but be steady like the North Star for sailors even in metaphorical storms.
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