Sonnet CXXX | My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun

Sonnet CXXX | My mistress' eye...

William Shakespeare

Sonnet CXXX | My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun

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Posted byAlexander Bennett04-Apr-2026

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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 I in her cheeks;

And in some perfumes is there more delight

Than in the breath that from my mistress ree...

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