A Poem

[jennythereader]

April is National Poetry Month, and in honor of that I will be posting poems from time to time.

This one is my favorite of Shakespeare's sonnets, and one of his best known.

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.

I got this from Great Sonnets, edited by Paul Negri.  The format is as close as I could get to the one used in the book.