Wishing you love and a wonderful Valentine's Day!
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.
My favorite sonnet by Shakespeare and Chaucey smiling at me on my computer screen.
ReplyDeleteWhat a way to start Valentine's Day!
Basil
Thanks Basil!
DeleteHappy Valentine's Day to you and Tamara!
Thank you for the wealth of GORGEOUS love poems and for that picture of your GORGEOUS little Chaucer!
ReplyDeleteHappy Valentine's Day, Adele!
Jamie
Thanks, Jamie!
DeleteHappy Valentine's Day!
ReplyDeleteLove the pic of your new little guy, Adele! There's no love quite as unqualified as a dog's love! Here's a poem by Edgar Guest that I hope you and your blog readers will enjoy.
A DOG
By Edgar A. Guest
'Tis a pity not to have a dog, for at the long day's end
The man or boy will know the joy of Welcome from a friend.
And whether he be rich or poor or much or little bring,
The dog will mark his step and bark as if he were a king.
Though gossips whisper now and then of faults they plainly see,
And some may sneer, from year to year my dog stays true to me.
He's glad to follow where I go, and though I win or fail
His love for me he'll let me see by wagging of his tail.
Now if I were to list the friends of mine in smiles and tears
Who through and through are staunch and true and constant down the years,
In spite of all my many faults which critics catalog
Deserving blame, I'd have to name my ever-faithful dog.
'Tis pity not to have a dog, whatever be his breed,
For dogs possess a faithfulness which humans sadly need.
And whether skies be blue or gray, good luck or ill attend
Man's toil by day, a dog will stay his ever-constant friend.
Máire Ó Cathail (Ireland)
Maire,
DeleteI love the Edgar Guest poem -- thanks so much for posting it!
Do you celebrate Valentine's Day in Ireland?
Yes, we celebrate here in much the same manner as you do in the US. Flowers, chocolates, celebrations, and love at the end of every rainbow!
DeleteThanks for posting this Edgar Guest poem!
DeleteYes, the Edgar Guest poem is great! Thanks, Maire!
DeleteJamie
Happy Valentine's Day to you and to Chaucey! (Great picture of him.)
ReplyDeleteThanks for the rich assortment of poems!
Thanks, Bob! Glad you like the poems (and the picture of Chaucey)!
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