 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 Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare - Page 125by William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830Full view - About this book
 | H. L. Hix - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 212 pages
...of his lover is too easy. An even more damaging revelation comes from Shakespeare's sonnet 130. My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is...If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I grant I never saw a goddess go; My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground. And yet, by heaven,... | |
 | Laurie Rozakis - Fiction - 1999 - 406 pages
...If this be error and upon me proved, 1 never writ, nor no man ever loved. Choice #2: "Sonnet 130" My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is...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... | |
 | Alan Haehnel - Drama - 2000 - 44 pages
...PHIL (Phil delivers Sonnet #130 very comically, with props and actions that make the class roar.) "My mistress* eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is...wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damaskt, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight... | |
 | Robert S. Miola - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 206 pages
...of his lady's excellences; instead, he takes each literally and denies its applicability to her: 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... | |
 | R. A. Foakes - Performing Arts - 2000 - 332 pages
...her conventional beauty as by her spirit and wit — why else did Shakespeare write Sonnet 130? My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is...dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. Duncan-Jones thinks that there could surely be no question of the woman described in Sonnets either... | |
 | Ellen F. Davis - Religion - 2000 - 324 pages
...popular also among European poets until Shakespeare effectively ended the tradition with his parody: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is...dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. (Sonnet 130) Although some scholars also read the present poem as a parody, such a reading sets it... | |
 | Louise McConnell - 2000 - 344 pages
...employed in I6th-century poetry, particularly in love poems. Shakespeare parodies this in Sonnet I30: 'My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is...If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head'. Condell 60 Condell, Henry (d. 1627) A principal actor with Shakespeare's company of players the LORD... | |
 | Jamie Lorentzen - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 236 pages
...his ethicists are not unlike the narrator of Shakespeare's sonnet 130, the latter of whom states: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is...seen roses damask'd, red and white, But no such roses I see in her cheeks, And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress... | |
 | Richard Stengel - Social Science - 2002 - 326 pages
...courtly flattery and in doing so created one of the greatest love poems ever written, 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... | |
 | Rob Pope - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2002 - 448 pages
...hands 5. 1.2 a WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, 'My mistress' eyes' (Sonnet 130), written c. 1594-9, pub. 1609 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, 5 But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more... | |
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