Vox Populi
A curated webspace for Poetry, Politics, and Nature with over 20,000 daily subscribers and over 8,000 archived posts.
William Shakespeare: Sonnet 116
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 proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
Discover more from Vox Populi
Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.
In my life this Shakespeare Sonnet, 116, has been foundation. My understanding, the base of my loves. I think that this was pretty female-based, a female experience, how we put up with our unloving men. My evolution has been in meditation of this truth, in seeking growth. thank you. _______________________________________Hard Country,West End Press (epic poem); The Book of Seeing With One’s Own Eyes, Graywolf Press (stories); El Nino, Lost Roads (stories); Psyche Drives the Coast, Empty Bowl Press (poetry); South America Mi Hija, U of Pittsburgh (booklength poem); The Husband Arcane The Arcane of O, Gorda Plate Press (booklengthpoem); Body and Soul, Cedar HillPublications (poetry); Love on the Streets,U of Pittsburgh (poetry); My Father’sLove, Vols 1 & 2, Portrait of thePoet as a Child/as a Woman, Wild Ocean, (memoir); The Visit, Wild Ocean Press (booklength poem); I, Poet, Omerta Publications (sequenced poems)
From: Vox Populi To: sharondoubiago@yahoo.com Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2016 2:02 AM Subject: [New post] William Shakespeare: Sonnet 116 #yiv1928608077 a:hover {color:red;}#yiv1928608077 a {text-decoration:none;color:#0088cc;}#yiv1928608077 a.yiv1928608077primaryactionlink:link, #yiv1928608077 a.yiv1928608077primaryactionlink:visited {background-color:#2585B2;color:#fff;}#yiv1928608077 a.yiv1928608077primaryactionlink:hover, #yiv1928608077 a.yiv1928608077primaryactionlink:active {background-color:#11729E;color:#fff;}#yiv1928608077 WordPress.com | Vox Populi posted: “Let me not to the marriage of true mindsAdmit impediments. Love is not loveWhich 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 e” | |
LikeLike
Deep and true notion of love! How can we ever feel that?
(I’d like to show some of my work eventually, is it possible?)
LikeLike
Pingback: William Shakespeare: Sonnet 116 | krista writes