"Love's not Time's fool"

Anne Bradstreet's "To My Dear and Loving Husband" is such an expression of love and emotion! It is exemplary of an ideal love of a husband and wife that is loyal, giving, passionate, and kind. Though we do not know the husband's affections for his wife, we can assume, by the way she speaks of him, he must be a devoted and loving husband. This reminds me of one of Shakespeare's sonnets (#116 to be exact) describes the same kind of ideal love...

"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."
                                         - William Shakespeare

Similar to Anne's poem, this sonnet identifies love as something that is not bound to time. It is everlasting and enduring, as we know of the love of Christ! Shakespeare says love is an "ever-fixed mark," rather something that follows the flow of the world.