Sonnet 116   -   Shakespear

 

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 rosey 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.