Which line best supports an interpretation that the
poem is sincere and serious?
"If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head"
"But no such roses see I in her cheeks"
"That music hath a far more pleasing sound"
"And yet by heaven, I think my love as rare"
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.
- "Sonnet 130,"
William Shakespeare