Two "Mistress Poems" 400 +Years Apart

Two "Mistress Poems" 400 +Years Apart

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun (Sonnet 130 ...

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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 ...

• Poems · The Winter's Tale Act IV · Sonnet · She Walks in Beauty · William Shakespeare

(Sonnet 130)

William Shakespeare, 1564 - 1616

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 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.

 Re: YOU NAME IT or Ode to a Vibrator

I too one day had organsms five

but by then  had not been long alive

In fact, I was not quite twenty one

and now for me , at 88 and -the days, if not me - mounting,

that such times  are over and done

hardly needs recounting or accounting,

for  at my current peak,

I'd be lucky to manage once or twice a week. 

So My Sweet, let me hasten to congratulate you

even if secretly I might prefer  to strangle or flatulate* you.

Such  talents and over-capacity at one and four score !

Could you perhaps put them to economic employment

rather than only relegate them to your secret enjoyment?

Consider-- you could become a mistress or whore

while still leaving  many MUCH  younger men begging for more?

And who knows,  perhaps if you'd advertise discreetly 

you might be reimbursed daily 

or at least weekly

and with the additional income Life could proceed more gaily

(while your Mother  smiles down from Heaven

while she remembers a day she once  had seven?)

Lastly,  I must remember  for all MY past sins to make amends,

so, if and when we meet again, should I bring two friends?

HzL

4/28/16