Love Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare

This is one of the few works of Shakespeare in which I do not need to have a study guide beside me to half understand it. I liked the poem not only for its message but also for its language. There is something about it that feels so archaic, that reading it makes me remember the olden times when people used to express their love for each other in such eloquent terms. It was not merely "I will always be here for you through thick or thin" but rather, "Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds." I feel it is a very beautiful poem, professing love we can no longer express in our everyday language.