English lit twelve, module two, unit three, assignment six.

1. Sonnet 130 Module Two, unit 3, assignment six. Mercedes Blanchard 18/10/11

2. My mistress' eyes are nothing like the su n,

3. Coral is far more red than her lips' red.

4. If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun,

5. If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.

6. I have seen roses demasked, red and white,

7. But no such rose see I in her cheeks.

8. And in some perfumes is there more delight

9. Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.

10. I love to hear her speak, yet I know

11. That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

12. I grant I never saw a goddess go,

13. My mistress when she walks, treads on the ground.

14. And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare

15. As any she belied with false compare.