I know that many of us have had Shakespeare spoiled forever by well-meaning and well-educated high school English teachers and by Grade 11 and 12 government curriculum, but as I was reading a couple of sonnets tonight, this one stood out unbelievably as one that, for me, is just all about Jesus, the One and Only. Beautiful - check it out:

105.
Let not my love be called idolatry,
Nor my beloved as an idol show,
Since all alike my songs and praises be
To one, of one, still such, and ever so.
Kind is my love to-day, to-morrow kind,
Still constant in a wondrous excellence;
Therefore my verse, to constancy confin'd,
One thing expressing, leaves out difference.
"Fair, kind, and true," is all my argument,
"Fair, kind, and true," varying to other words;
And in this change is my invention spent,
Three themes in one, which wondrous scope affords,
"Fair, kind, and true," have often liv'd alone
Which three, till now, never kept seat in one.


NOTE: After I posted this, I decided to look online at a couple of commentaries and notes on Sonnet 105, and I am amazed at the range of ideas and beliefs about Shakespeare's writing that they express and put forth as this sonnet's only interpretation. Rest assured if you read some of these that poetry is still poetry - intended to be enjoyed and interpreted by all its different readers. If you read a commentary or two, do your best to look at four or five - you'll find four or five different explanations of Shakespeare's intent and perhaps a bit more freedom to therefore find your own understanding in this poem. Or better yet - my advice is not to look at them at all and simply enjoy this sonnet for how it speaks to you.