By William Shakespeare Sonnet 116 William Shakespeare Let me not to the marriage of true mindsAdmit impediments. Love is not loveWhich alters when it alteration …
Marriage

Sonnet 8: Music to hear, why hear’st thou music sadly
The poet admonishes the fair youth, telling him that, in dedicating himself to a single life he makes himself worthless, a nonentity, a nothingness.

Sonnet 6: Then Let Not Winter’s Ragged Hand Deface
By William Shakespeare Then let not winter’s ragged hand deface,In thee thy summer, ere thou be distilled:Make sweet some vial; treasure thou some placeWith beauty’s …

Sonnet 4: Unthrifty Loveliness, Why Dost Thou Spend
By William Shakespeare Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spendUpon thy self thy beauty’s legacy?Nature’s bequest gives nothing, but doth lend,And being frank she lends to …

Sonnet 2: When forty winters shall besiege thy brow
By William Shakespeare When forty winters shall besiege thy browAnd dig deep trenches in thy beauty’s field,Thy youth’s proud livery, so gazed on now,Will be …

Love Poem For A Wife I
By A.K. Ramanujan Really what keeps us apartat the end of years is unsharedchildhood. You cannot, for instance,meet my father. He is some yearsdead. Neither …

My Last Duchess
By Robert Browning That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall,Looking as if she were alive. I callThat piece a wonder, now; Fra Pandolf’s handsWorked …