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Admin
01-17-2007, 09:40 AM
Sonnet #130

CXXX.

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.

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Niamh
01-23-2007, 03:46 PM
God, Its a long time since i read that sonnet! I had to study it for my leaving cert back in 2000. Seven years ago now!

ennison
01-23-2007, 05:43 PM
It can take many readings. A clever rebuttal of overdone love poems

Admin
01-23-2007, 06:56 PM
I find the first 8 lines tedious, but the last 4 are gems.