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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... "
The Parterre of fiction, poetry, history [&c.]. - Page 158
1835
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A Book of Elizabethan Lyrics

Felix Emmanuel Schelling - English poetry - 1895 - 430 pages
...dun ; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damasked red and white, 5 But no such roses see I in her cheeks ; And in some...well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound ; 10 I grant I never saw a goddess go, My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground ; And yet,...
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...A Book of Elizabethan Lyrics

Felix Emmanuel Schelling - English poetry - 1895 - 424 pages
...dun ; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damasked red and white, 5 But no such roses see I in her cheeks ; And in some...I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound; 10 I grant I never saw a goddess go, My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground ; And yet, by...
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The Temple Shakespeare, Volume 31

William Shakespeare - 1904 - 210 pages
...dun ; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damask'd, red and white, 5 But no such roses see I in her cheeks ; And in some...I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound: 10 [ grant I never saw a goddess go, cxxx THOU an as tyrannous, so as thou art, As those whose beauties...
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A Book of Elizabethan Lyrics

Felix Emmanuel Schelling - English poetry - 1895 - 424 pages
...dun ; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damasked red and white, 5 But no such roses see I in her cheeks ; And in some...I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound; 1° I grant I never saw a goddess go, My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground; And yet, by...
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A Dictionary of Quotations from the English Poets

Quotations, English - 1895 - 768 pages
...lips' red : If snow be white, why then her breasts arc 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 checks ; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks....
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Gossip from a Muniment Room: Being Passages in the Lives of Anne and Mary ...

Lady Anne Emily Garnier Newdigate-Newdegate, Anne Emily Garnier Newdigate-Newdegate - Great Britain - 1897 - 190 pages
...snow be white, why then her breasts are dun ; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head ; I have I have seen roses damask'd red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks. and again : Therefore my mistress' eyes are raven black, Her eye» so suited, and they mourners seem At...
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Studien zur englischen Philologie, Issue 54

Albert Wietfeld - English philology - 1916 - 154 pages
...gentle day doth follow night (145, 10). — Corals are far more red than her lips' red (130, 2). — I have seen roses damask'd, red and white But no such roses see I in her cheeks (130,5). III. Darstellung und Durchführung der Bilder. Haben wir im vorigen Abschnitt die verschiedenen...
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Shakespeare's Sonnets Reconsidered: And in Part Rearranged with Introductory ...

William Shakespeare - 1899 - 354 pages
...; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen Roses damask'd, red and white, 5 Bnt no such Roses see I in her cheeks ; And in some perfumes...I know That Music hath a far more pleasing sound: 10 I grant I never saw a goddess go, My Mistress when she walks treads on the ground : And yet, by...
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Shakespeare's Sonnets

William Shakespeare - Sonnets, English - 1899 - 386 pages
...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 lier cheeks ; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks....
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Sonnets: From the Cambridge Text of William Aldis Wright

William Shakespeare - 1901 - 138 pages
...dun ; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damask'd, red and white, 5 But no such roses see I in her cheeks ; And in some...well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound ; 10 I grant I never saw a goddess go, My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground ; And yet,...
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