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 damasked*, 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.

*demasked: variegated *reeks: emanates from * go: walk

This is my all time favorite sonnet that Shakespeare has written. I like it because I find it to be hilarious and easy to understand.

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