In honor of the Bard's 445th birthday and in celebration of Talk Like Shakespeare Day, I share with you a sonnet by Will himself. (And here's what some of them looked like back in the day.) (And click here for some general information on the poet.) Enjoy!
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.
by William Shakespeare
Thanks to Shakespeare Online
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