![]() Sonnet 130 refers to her, even though we do not know her name. Most of Shakespeare’s sonnets are addressed to a young man, but towards the end of the sequence there emerges the so-called “Dark Lady”, a woman with whom he seems to have had an often difficult and unhappy relationship. This is the 130th sonnet in Shakespeare’s sonnet sequence of 154 sonnets, published in 1609. You were supposed to be able to recognize a goddess by the way she walked. ![]() The word was not used then with our heavily negative sense, but more neutrally.ġ1 go: walk. ![]() Damask roses were a sweet-smelling variety popular at the time.Ĩ reeks: is exhaled. The mistress, however, has black and not blonde hair.ĥ damasked: mingled (red and white). Ornamental head-dresses of the period often contained gold wires, so that it was quite normal to compare lush blonde hair with the gold wires in the head-dress above. her eyes are not bright and shining.Ĥ wires: (gold) wires.
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