Randomly, because I think this one's super cute

[muccamukk]

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 reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.

—William Shakespeare

Comments

[nenya_kanadka]

AKA: "She's a normal person! And she's awesome!" with a side of "Also she'll kick your ass if you start up with that goddess shit again."

Very nice. :D

[sylvaine]

That one's one of my favourite of his sonnets. It's so realistic and pokes fun at the usual kind of love poem & yet it's still so full of love. (You don't have to make ridiculous comparisons to prove that you love someone!)

[nenya_kanadka]

I also feel like the ridiculous comparisons are sometimes really hard to know how to respond to--what do you say to that kind of thing, anyway? This is a little more down-to-earth. Although IDK about the line about hair like wires. :P

[st_aurafina]

I so love this one!

[demon_jess]

I absolutely love this sonnet

[valtyr]

I gotta admit, I'd love to have heard the lady's thoughts on this.

[nenya_kanadka]

I wonder if anyone's written a response poem?