A poem about true love ...

[Lyd12]

some lines from Shakespeares sonnets, also in Captain Corelli's mandolin -

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 prov'd,

I never writ, nor no man ever lov'd.

[GradmaP]

Lovely rose and poem, thank you x

[Lyd12 in reply to GradmaP]

so glad you liked it. first came across it in Captain Corelli's Mandolin. It brings to mind all the loving carers out there, whose love for each other has survived much 'alteration'. Iris x

[undine]

lovely thank you xx

[Lyd12]

Nice to hear from you, Undine, hope you are well as can be. iris x

[Hidden]

Lovely...both the poem and the rose...

[Lyd12 in reply to Hidden]

thanks Vashti, the gardenis getting a good soaking at the moment, Hope you are feeling better, have you a craft project on at the moment? iris x

[Nanaeal]

Lovely rose & beautiful poem. Thank you.

[Lyd12 in reply to Nanaeal]

thanks nuneal, just read about your amazing holiday, well done. We had several holidays abroad in our younger days, the last one was in France about 20 years ago. I loved the mountains in Switzerland and Austria. Iris x

[Nanaeal]

Good morning Iris. I am sure I just wrote a reply to you and It's disappeared into the ether.

I was saying it's so wonderful that my dad scription of our trip has reminded people of their own adventures & triggered happy memories. We have only visited Switzerland briefly many years ago it was by beautiful. It's. On my bucket list which is so long I will have to live to be a hundred.

Hope your keeping as well as possible. Have a good day. Nan

[sassy59]

Beautiful Iris and thank you for sharing that. I will copy it down to keep. xxxx

[Lyd12]

glad you liked it Carole. Having doubts about the Corelli connection - couldn't find it mentioned on line, there was another quote about love but not this one.