 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 damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there...  The Works of Shakespeare - Page 450by William Shakespeare - 1899Full view - About this book
 | Brian Vickers - 2002 - 600 pages
...heaven itself for ornament doth use') and, more memorably, in the burlesque blazon of Sonnet 13n: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is...her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grows on her head. Both poems poke fun at the conventional Petrarchan comparisons, still found in Spenser's... | |
 | Simon Brittan - 2003 - 242 pages
...compare you to a summer's day? The point is made even more clearly in this other famous sonnet: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is...wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks, And in some perfumes is there more... | |
 | John Carrington - 2003 - 344 pages
...are wittily tongue-in-cheek; some impassioned and soul-searching. Take, for example, Sonnet 130: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is...wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more... | |
 | Princeton Review (Firm) - 2004 - 223 pages
...complimentary thing to say to someone you love! Check out the sonnet and judge for yourself! Sonnet 130 My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is...her head. I have seen roses damask'd, red and white, I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound: I grant I never... | |
 | D. A. Draper, C. E. Sutcliffe, I. Pilgrim, P. Thomas - 2004 - 150 pages
...memories, while the other is about planning a future crime o (/I in William Shakespeare Sonnet 130 My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is...dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. 5 I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes... | |
 | 張錯 - 2005 - 360 pages
...難怪莎士比亞曾在 《 十四行詩集》 ( Sonnets ， @609 ) 第@30 首中加以嘲諷: My mistress， eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is...delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. 我情婦眼睛半點不像太陽; 珊瑚遠比她紅唇更地紅 若雪為哇白， 為何她胸脯陰暗無光... | |
 | Patrizia Bettella - 2005 - 273 pages
...Sonnets (1609). Sonnet 130 to the Dark Lady bears remarkable similarities to Aretino's madrigal: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun, coral is...wires, black wires grow on her head: I have seen roses damasked, red and white, but no such roses see I in her cheeks, and in some perfumes is there more... | |
 | Athalya Brenner - 252 pages
...emerges. Look, for instance, at Shakespeare's Sonnet 130, in modern spelling for your convenience: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is...wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; T 1 77 Anonymous Woman from the Song... | |
 | Bidyut Chakrabarty - 2004 - 192 pages
...nothing like the sun', the poet explores the possibilities of the common antipetrarchan convention. My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is...wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more... | |
 | Costantino Maeder, Olga Fischer, William J. Herlofsky, Université Catholique de Louvain, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Universität Zürich - 2005 - 448 pages
...Hardly. This is no doubt why the original version by Shakespeare reads differently (sonnet 130): (2) My mistress" eyes are nothing like the sun, Coral is...wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks, And in some perfumes is there more... | |
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