 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...  Works - Page 485by William Shakespeare - 1874Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1897 - 330 pages
...this the world well knows ; yet none knows well To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell. My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun ; Coral is...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1897 - 450 pages
...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;...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... | |
 | Georg Brandes - 1898 - 422 pages
...seems, however, to be mainly a satire upon the conventional similes employed by bad poets : — " My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun ; Coral is...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - English poetry - 1898 - 512 pages
...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...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1899 - 530 pages
...cxxviii. 5. jacks, the keys of cxxix. n. proved, a very ; the virginal. Qq read ' proud and very. ' cxxx My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun ;...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... | |
 | Laurie Rozakis - Fiction - 1999 - 406 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | Alan Haehnel - Drama - 2000 - 44 pages
...then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damaskt, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks;...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... | |
 | Robert S. Miola - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 206 pages
...then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks;...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... | |
 | Nikki Moustaki - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 376 pages
...that you can fashion "good" poems out of the most commonplace subjects. Wooing 101: Love Poems Sonnet CXXX My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral...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... | |
 | Paula M. Block, Dean Wesley Smith - Fiction - 2001 - 324 pages
...Will's sonnets, to review what she remembered of them. Her eyes misted with tears, as she read, My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is...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... | |
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