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# Timeless Classics
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- Published: 2024-05-02T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-05-02T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: Had Romeo and Juliet eloped we'd never know this tale of star crossed lovers. By killing all his darlings Shakespeare hoped each generation reads it and discovers the Montagues and Capulets anew, and weeps over their...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

Had Romeo and Juliet eloped  
we'd never know this tale of star crossed lovers.  
By killing all his darlings Shakespeare hoped  
each generation reads it and discovers  
the Montagues and Capulets anew,  
and weeps over their sorry tale of woe.  
We'd wonder if our love is just as true  
as that of Juliet and Romeo.  
But Shakespeare did not deal with focus groups,  
though possibly a run in with a censor  
might force the playwright, going through their hoops,  
to skew the storyline or make it denser,  
and write it as a comedy instead.  
Like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.