Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Sonnet 9: Not 116


Why should I not admit impediments

When I speak of the marriage of true minds?

Could one recall love's many elements

While alterations he so eas'ly finds?


If love does not with the remover bend

Nor move along a fix'd mark to remove

How swiftly then would tempests greet love's end

As wandering barks a pair of lovers prove.


If time and sickles drive love to the edge

Should love not bend instead of alter not?

But unknown worth is standing on a ledge

While yet to know true worth is worth a lot.


Although I err, it cannot e'er be proved

For I can't write, but once I may have loved...

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