William Shakespeare - Sonnet 116

Toney 2022-03-25 09:01:09

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

oh , no ! It is an ever-fixed mark,

That looks on tempests and is never shaken;

It is the star to every wandering bark,

whose wort's unknown, although his height be taken

Love's not tome's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks

With 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 write , nor no man ever loved.

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  • Elinor Dashwood: Marianne, please try... I... I cannot... I cannot do without you. Oh, please, I... I-I have tried to bear everything else... I will try... Please, dearest, beloved Marianne, do not leave me alone.

  • Marianne: Colonel Brandon.

    [Though trying to slip out, he eases slowly back into the room, almost afraid to speak]

    Marianne: Thank you.

    [a fleeting look of mild gratitude crosses his face from these first sincerely kind words she's ever spoken to him]