 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...  A Dictionary of Quotations from the English Poets - Page 337by Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 715 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 638 pages
...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...to the edge of doom. If this be error, and upon me prov'd, I never writ, nor no man ever lov'd. SONNETS. 121 CXVII. Accnse me thus ; that I have scanted... | |
 | English poetry - 1833 - 240 pages
...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...to the edge of doom. If this be error, and upon me prov'd, WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. ACCUSE me thus ; that I have scanted all Wherein I should your great deserts... | |
 | Robert Walsh - Serial publications - 1836 - 530 pages
...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...edge of doom. If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved." It would be difficult to cite a finer passage of moral poetry... | |
 | lady Charlotte Susan M. Bury - 1837 - 936 pages
...north'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...to the edge of doom. If this be error, and upon me prov'd, 1 never writ, nor no man ever lov'd. SHAKSPEABE'S SONNETS. IT was on the morning, or rather... | |
 | William Howitt - Durham (England) - 1840 - 540 pages
...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...out even to the edge of doom. If this be error, and vpon me proved, — 1 never writ, nor no man ever loved. There never were fourteen lines which so deeply... | |
 | A Montagu Woodford - 1841 - 320 pages
...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...edge of doom. If this be error, and upon me proved, THE forward violet tins did I chid*:— Sweet thief- whence did choc steal thy sweet that smells, If... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1843 - 594 pages
...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...edge of doom. If this be error, and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved. CXVII. Accuse me thus : that I have scanted all Wherein I should... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1842 - 338 pages
...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...edge of doom. If this be error, and upon me proved ; — I never writ, nor no man ever loved. Accuse me thus ; that I have scanted all, Wherein I should... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 600 pages
...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...edge of doom. If this be error, and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved. CXVII. Accuse me thus : that I have scanted all Wherein I should... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 596 pages
...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...edge of doom. If this be error, and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved. CXVII. Accuse me thus : that I have scanted all Wherein I should... | |
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