As I am a great Jane Austen fan, I can not help but to enjoy this poem which is quoted in her novel "Sense and Sensibility". It is my hope, dear readers, that you are able to enjoy this work of literature as much as I have.
Shakespeare's sonnets. The text 101 - 154.:
"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."
