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Shaken..but not speared...Love Sonnet #116...?

Shakespeare's 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

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3 days ago
But Bill, I'm not sure if, "Within my bending sickle's compass come" is a good pick-up line...

3 days ago
He is the greatest...we're just not sure what...if he indeed wrote it all, yes, he's the greatest poet of all time. If it is, as some scholars believe, too large and diverse a body of work for one 17th century man to experience, then he's the greatest theatre producer of all time.


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: 3 days ago
But Bill, I'm not sure if, "Within my bending sickle's compass come" is a good pick-up line...