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 checks

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.

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Ne dozvoli da venčanje vernih duša

Nekom postane smetnja. Jer ljubav nije

Ljubav koja svaku promenu posluša,

Ni pred preprekom kad plaho se povije.

Ne, to je pouzdana kula-svetilja,

Koja buru gleda nikad uzdrmana,

Za zalutalu barku zvezda vodilja,

Vrednosti neznane a vrhunca znana.

Ljubav nije rumena luda vremena,

Nad kojom srp vremena zlokobno vreba,

Ljubav se ne menja od trena do trena,

Već traje dok je sudnji dan ne zatreba.

       Ako se dokaže da sam u zabludi –

       Onda nisam pesnik, niti ljube ljudi.

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S engleskog prepjevao  Milan  Drašković