Is love a fancy,
or a feeling? No.
It is immortal as
immaculate Truth,
'Tis not a blossom
shed as soon as youth,
Drops from the stem
of life--for it will grow,
In barren regions,
where no waters flow,
Nor rays of promise
cheats the pensive gloom.
A darkling fire,
faint hovering o'er a tomb,
That but itself
and darkness nought doth show,
It is my love's
being yet it cannot die,
Nor will it change,
though all be changed beside;
Though fairest beauty
be no longer fair,
Though vows be false,
and faith itself deny,
Though sharp enjoyment
be a suicide,
And hope a spectre
in a ruin bare.
This beautiful sonnet was used in
the movie "Sense and Sensibility"(1995),
starring Kate Winslet,Emma Thompson, and Hugh
Grant.
*sigh*, this is such a wonderful,
beautiful sonnet!! Don't you think so,
reader? c'',)