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-fixèd mark,
That
looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It
is the star to every wand’ring bark,
Whose
worth’s unknown, although his heighth 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.
Vocabulary:
1) impediment: 1. a physical problem that makes speaking, hearing, or moving difficult
a speech impediment
2. a situation or event that makes it difficult or impossible for someone or something to succeed or make progress
War is one of the greatest impediments to human progress.
2) tempests: 1. (literary) a violent storm
2. a tempest in a teapot: an unimportant matter that someone has become upset about
Haley dismissed the lawsuit as a a tempest in a teapot.
3) bark: sea-vessel, ship
4) sickle: a tool with a blade in the shape of a hook, used for cutting wheat or long grass
5) compass: 1. an instrument that shows directions and has a needle that always point north
2. compasses: a V-shaped instrument with one sharp point and a pen or pencil at the other end, used for drawing circles or measuring distances on maps
3. (formal) the area or range of subjects that someone is responsible for or that is discussed in a book
Within the brief compass of a single page, the author covers most of the major points.
