Monday, April 23, 2007

Happy Birthday, William Shakespeare!




In honor of Shakespeare's birthday, I'll share my favorite Shakespearean sonnet:



CXVI

"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."

(I also blogged about Will at www.poesdeadlydaughters.blogspot.com)

Happy Shakespeare's Birthday!

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