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" 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... "
The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: In Ten Volumes: Collated Verbatim ... - Page 299
by William Shakespeare - 1790
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The Discovery of Poetry: A Field Guide to Reading and Writing Poems

Frances Mayes - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 548 pages
...head. I have seen roses damasked,1 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;...
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The Art of Poetry: How to Read a Poem

Shira Wolosky Weiss - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 248 pages
...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:...
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Strange New Worlds III

Paula M. Block, Dean Wesley Smith - Fiction - 2001 - 324 pages
...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;...
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Kierkegaard's Metaphors

Jamie Lorentzen - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 236 pages
...head. I have seen roses damask'd, red and white, But no such roses I see 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 I well know That music hath a more pleasing sound; I...
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing Poetry

Nikki Moustaki - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 376 pages
...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:...
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The Story of Rats: Their Impact on Us, and Our Impact on Them

Samuel Anthony Barnett - Nature - 2001 - 220 pages
...lighthearted sonnets, in which he assures us, My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun . . . And from some perfumes is there more delight, Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. ln a modern review, RL Doty, of the Pennsylvania School of Dentistry, comments on the...
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The Wisdom of Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 244 pages
...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;...
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You're Too Kind: A Brief History of Flattery

Richard Stengel - Social Science - 2002 - 326 pages
...head. I have seen roses damasked, 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 afar more pleasing sound;...
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Our Greatest Writers: And Their Major Works

John Carrington - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 344 pages
...head. I have seen roses damasked, 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 afar more pleasing sound;...
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Poetry, Symbol, and Allegory: Interpreting Metaphorical Language from Plato ...

Simon Brittan - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2003 - 242 pages
...head. I have seen roses damasked, 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....
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