 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...  Songs and Sonnets by William Shakespeare ... - Página 185por William Shakespeare - 1887 - 253 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
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...attention to the disparity between the lady's appearance and the common Elizabethan concepts of beauty. My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is...dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. But this sonnet, No. CXXX, is not a smirking putdown of the lady's supposed attractiveness, but rather... | |
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