Sonnet 130: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun
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.
No son soles los ojos de mi amada,
Y el coral es más rojo que su boca:
No es nieve la morena piel que toca
Su cabellera endrina y acerada,
Blanca es la rosa, rosa o encarnada
Pero a ninguna su mejilla evoca;
Y un perfume mayor placer provoca
Que el soplo de su boca perfumada.
Amo su voz, aun cuando bien se sabe
Que es más dulce la música y más suave.
Y, aunque diosas no he visto caminar,
Sé que ella camina sobre el suelo.
Pero juro, con todo, por el cielo,
Que nadie se le puede comparar.
Soneto 116 - William Shakespeare
SONNET 116
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no; it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests, and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
Paraphrase and Analysis of Sonnet 116
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| Kate Winslet en "Sentido y sensibilidad", justo en el momento en el que recita un fragmento de este poema. |
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
SONETO 116
Permitid que no admita impedimento
ante el enlace de las almas fieles
no es amor el amor que cambia siempre por momentos
o que a distanciarse en la distancia tiende.
El amor es igual que un faro imperturbable,
que ve las tempestades y nunca se estremece.
Es la estrella que guía la nave a la deriva,
de un valor ignorado, aún sabiendo su altura.
No es juguete del Tiempo, aun si rosados labios
o mejillas alcanza, la guadaña implacable.
Ni se altera con horas o semanas fugaces,
si no que aguanta y dura hasta el último abismo.
Si es error lo que digo y en mí puede probarse,
decid, que nunca he escrito, ni amó jamás el hombre.
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Soneto 151 |
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