Thursday 26 May 2011

Heart skips a beat

Found a flat on trademe that is perfect. Hope and pray it's the one! Spent entire day at uni today which is unusual for me. I'm more of a turn up for class then skedaddle type student. It's late so I'm just going to share my favourite sonnet today, which I was thinking about the other day. My yr13 English teacher introduced it to me  and it's been a favourite of mine ever since.


Sonnet 130

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 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.


- William Shakespeare

2 comments:

  1. That's good news. Wow, the sonnet's not very flattering is it? "Black wires grow on her head" HAHA! And reeking breath! Not your typical love poem!

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  2. yes but that's the beauty of it, he says he loves her nonetheless. awww!

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