Shakespeare Sonnet a Day

I randomly stumbled upon this website, which allows users to subscribe to their sonnet-a-day e-mail list.

There's nothing like waking up in the morning to fourteen lines of iambic pentameter!

http://sonnetaday.com/

*Reminder: Shakespeare did not write in the 19th century, but his work was well studied!

Brush Up Your Shakespeare

In honor of the movie version of Sense and Sensibility, which features Marianne and Willoughby quoting sonnet 116, I think it fitting to provide you with the poem, in full, for you to enjoy.

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.

-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Note: William Shakespeare did not write during the 19th century, but his work was vastly appreciated then!