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" 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... "
The Works of Shakespeare - Page 748
by William Shakespeare - 1864
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Works, Volume 6

William Shakespeare - 1874 - 588 pages
...cheeks ; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress recks. I love to hear her speak, — yet well I know That...My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground . • — tliose jack§,— 1 The keys of a spinnet or virginal were termed "jacks." b — ihyjinycrs...
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Parnassus

Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1874 - 600 pages
...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...love as rare As any she belie'd with false compare. SHAKSPEARE. SENTENCES 'Tis truth, (although this truth's a star Too deep-enskied for all to see), As...
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Characteristics of English Poets from Chaucer to Shirley

William Minto - English poetry - 1874 - 506 pages
...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...Heaven, I think my love as rare As any she, belied by false compare." He is no tame admirer and adorer, seeing nothing in his mistress but perfection...
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Characteristics of English Poets from Chaucer to Shirley

William Minto - English poetry - 1874 - 518 pages
...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...Heaven, I think my love as rare As any she, belied by false compare." He is no tame admirer and adorer, seeing nothing in his mistress but perfection...
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Parnassus

Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1874 - 584 pages
...cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress recks. I love to hear her speak, — yet well I know That...love as rare As any she belie'd with false compare. SHAKSPEARE. SENTENCES "Keep measure in love?" More light befall Thy sanctity, and make it less! Be...
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Parnassus

Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1875 - 588 pages
...clere, — I will no more speake of this mate re. CHAUCEK. COMMON SENSE. SECOND THOUGHT. MY mistress's eyes are nothing like the sun ; Coral is far more...love as rare As any she belie'd with false compare. SHAKSPEAKE. SENTENCES 'Tis truth, (although this truth's a star Too dcep-enskied for all to see), As...
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Chaucer to Burns

Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 840 pages
...and prov'd, a very woe ; Before, a joy propos'd ; behind, a dream ; All this the world well knows ; bely'd with false compare. C'XXXL Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art, As those whose beauties proudly...
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The Poems

William Shakespeare - 1878 - 408 pages
...in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, — yet well I know That musick hath a far more pleasing sound ; I grant I never saw...yet by heaven, I think my love as rare As any she bely'd with false compare. cxxxi. Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art, For well thou know'st to my...
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Songs and Sonnets

William Shakespeare - Songs, English - 1879 - 274 pages
...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...My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground : THE MISTRESS '"PHOU art as tyrannous, so as thou art, As those whose beauties proudly make them cruel...
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The Poetical Works of William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, Volumes 1-2

William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson - English poetry - 1879 - 844 pages
...in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, — yet well I know That musick hath a far more pleasing sound ; I grant I never saw...yet by heaven, I think my love as rare As any she bely'd with false compare. cxxxi. Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art, As those whose beauties proudly...
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