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My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'… — William Shakespeare

Sonnet · Poem

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips' red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare
Shakespeare's Sonnets · 1609
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Topic
Being in loveLove
Statement type
Profession of love
Medium
SonnetPoem
Time
1609The Renaissance
Person
William Shakespeare
Provenance
Current citation
Shakespeare, William. "The Sonnets." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, sonnet 130.
Original citation
Shakespeare, William. Shake-speares Sonnets. London: Thomas Thorpe, 1609, sonnet 130, I. 1.

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