WORD LISTS

"Sonnet 116"

Sun Dec 14 19:20:56 EST 2014

Who can define Love? William Shakespeare tries to describe what it is and is not in his sonnet.

Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 8 Unit 1's texts from SpringBoard's Common Core ELA series: A Wrinkle in Time, The Drummer Boy of Shiloh, The Odyssey, A Man, Soldier home, Sonnet 116, Where I Find My Heroes, White House Funeral Sermon, O Captain! My Captain!, Frederick Douglass, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, A Definition of a Gentleman

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.