Poems With Love calligraphy

Today I’m writing Sonnet 116 in calligraphy with silver gilding and illustrations inspired by Russian motifs in lovely blues.

As an introduction to the Poems With Love blog, I thought I’d share previous commissions of the same poem in calligraphy today.

Sonnet 116 in italic calligraphy, gold & brown

sonnet 116 in calligraphy

Sonnet 116 contemporary calligraphy design (aqua & pink)

Shakespeare calligraphy poem

This is the calligraphy poem I’m asked to write more than any other:

Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare

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.