Sonnet 130: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun
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 delightThan in the breath that from my mistress reeks.I love to hear her speak, yet well I knowThat 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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