april 1 {the poem project}

Here's a month's worth of favorite poems from me, 'cause April's National Poetry Month (in the USA).

1.

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.
William Shakespeare

This is probably my favorite poem of all time. I can recite it from memory and often do. It’s a perfect sonnet that sounds beautiful when spoken aloud. Of course, the sentiment is a romantic and attractive one.