Calendar of Verse Author:George Saintsbury Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 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 r... more »emove: — 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 ev'n to the edge of doom. If this be error, and upon me proved, I never writ, and no man ever loved. Heaven and yourself Had part in this fair maid ; now Heaven hath all, And all the better is it for the maid : Your part in her you could not keep from death ; But Heaven keeps his part in eternal life. The most you sought was—her promotion ; For 'twas your heaven, she should be advanc'd, And weep ye now, seeing she is advanc'd, Above the clouds, as high as heaven itself? O, in this love, you love your child so ill, That you run mad, seeing that she is well. chapter{Section 4Take, oh take those lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn ; And those eyes, the break of day, Lights that do mislead the morn : But my kisses bring again, Bring again, Seals of love, but sealed in vain, Sealed in vain. From Measure for Measure. Friendship is constant in all other things, Save in the office and affairs of love : Therefore, all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for Itself, And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch, Against whose charms faith melteth into blood. This is an accident of hourly proof. chapter{Section 5For it so falls out, That what we have we prize not to the worth, Whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd a...« less