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Sonnet 130: My Mistress’ Eyes are Nothing like the Sun

February 4, 2013 By PoetryGirl

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 damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there . . .

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Filed Under: Humorous Love Poems, Love Poems, Love Poetry, Renaissance Poetry, Shakespeare Poems, Sonnets, True Love Tagged With: best love poetry, funny love poems, love poems, My Mistress Eyes, Shakespeare love sonnets

Ontology

February 3, 2013 By PoetryGirl

She can be a nest. She's got the necessary equipment. Two breasts you could rest your head between. She can be a string of pearls, rounded between your fingers, as you count the time between ivory knots. She is, yes, the artichoke with the impossible heart a man might seek for . . .

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Filed Under: Beautiful One, Contemporary, Engagement Poems, L.L. Barkat, Love Poems, Love Poetry, Romantic Love Poems, Wedding Poems Tagged With: anniversary poems, best love poetry, engagement poems, love poems, Wedding poems

Love and Sleep

February 1, 2013 By PoetryGirl

Lying asleep between the strokes of night I saw my love lean over my sad bed, Pale as the duskiest lily’s leaf or head, Smooth-skinned and dark, with bare throat made to bite, Too wan for blushing and too warm for white, But perfect-coloured without white or red. And her lips opened . . .

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Filed Under: 1800's, Anniversary Poems, Beautiful One, Charles Swinburne, Love Poems, Love Poetry, Romantic Love Poems, Valentine's Day Poetry, Victorian Tagged With: beautiful love poems, best love poems, best love poetry, Charles Swinburne, romantic love poems, Valentine's poems, Victorian love poetry

Sonnet 1

January 31, 2013 By PoetryGirl

Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show, That she, dear she, might take some pleasure of my pain, Pleasure might cause her read, reading might make her know, Knowledge might pity win, and pity grace obtain,— I sought fit words to paint the blackest face of woe, Studying inventions . . .

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Filed Under: 1500's, Dating, Hard-to-Get (Coy Poems), Longing, Love Poems, Love Poetry, Renaissance Poetry, Sir Philip Sidney, Sonnets Tagged With: Astrophil and Stella, love poems, love poetry, Loving in Truth, Renaissance Poetry, Sir Philip Sidney, Sonnet 1

A Red, Red Rose

January 27, 2013 By PoetryGirl

O my Luve is like a red, red rose That’s newly sprung in June; O my Luve is like the melody That’s sweetly played in tune. So fair art thou, my bonnie lass, So deep in luve am I; And I will luve thee still, my dear, Till a’ the seas gang dry. Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear, And the . . .

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Filed Under: 1700's, Ballad, Beautiful One, Love Poems, Love Poetry, Robert Burns, Romantic Period, True Love Tagged With: love ballad, love poems, love poetry, Robert Burns

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