That then I scorn to change my state with kings.Īll days are nights to see till I see thee,Īnd nights bright days when dreams do show thee me. Love sought is good, but given unsought better.įor thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings ![]() I love thee so, that, maugre all thy pride,ĭo not extort thy reasons from this clause,įor that I woo, thou therefore hast no causeīut rather reason thus with reason fetter, Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. Grows, lives and dies in single blessedness. Than that which withering on the virgin thorn That show, contain and nourish all the world:Įlse none at all in ought proves excellent.īut earthlier happy is the rose distill'd, They are the books, the arts, the academes, They sparkle still the right Promethean fire ![]() O, then his lines would ravish savage earsįrom women's eyes this doctrine I derive: Until his ink were temper'd with Love's sighs Love's tongue proves dainty Bacchus gross in taste:Īs bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair:Īnd when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods Than are the tender horns of cockl'd snails When the suspicious head of theft is stopp'd: That for thy right myself will bear all wrong.īut love, first learned in a lady's eyes,Ĭourses as swift as thought in every power,Ī lover's ear will hear the lowest sound, Is full of virtue, bounty, worth and qualitiesīeseeming such a wife as your fair daughter Were rich and honourable besides, the gentleman Mine own, I would say but if mine, then yours,Ī heaven on earth I have won by wooing thee. One half of me is yours, the other half yours So long lives this and this gives life to thee. So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, When in eternal lines to time thou growest: Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,Īnd every fair from fair sometime declines,īy chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,Īnd summer's lease hath all too short a date: Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,īut bears it out even to the edge of doom. Within his bending sickle's compass come: Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. That looks on tempests and is never shaken Please click on the sonnet links for detailed explanatory notes. Sonnet 116 is the most popular because it speaks to the theme of marriage directly, but Sonnet 18, hailed as the greatest love poem ever written in English, comes a close second. “We make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars, as if we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance.Shakespeare's poetry has long been a favorite choice at weddings in North America and Europe. “Comets, importing change of times and states,īrandish your crystal tresses in the sky.” These signs forerun the death or fall of kings.” Rich men look sad, and ruffians dance and leap The pale-faced moon looks bloody on the earth,Īnd lean-looked prophets whisper fearful change. “The bay-trees in our country are all withered,Īnd meteors fright the fixèd stars of heaven. “These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us.” Tut, I should have been that I am, had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizing.” “My father compounded with my mother under the Dragon’s tail, and my nativity was under Ursa Major, so that it follows, I am rough and lecherous. “O, swear not by the moon, the fickle moon, the inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circle orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable” Office, and custom, in all line of order.” Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, “The heavens themselves, the planets, and this center Or say with princes if it shall go well.” Of plagues, of dearths, or season’s quality William Shakespeare on Self Love Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a. Let the wisdom of Shakespeare influence your day. Read through these Shakespeare quotes and find ones that speak loudly to your heart and soul. He wrote about the blood, guts, and glory of life, as well as the heart, love and sweet side of it. ![]() ![]() “Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck, Shakespeare was a visionary man who led a visionary life through his plays.
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