By Meah and Morgan

SISTER MOON

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.

Shakespeare refers to his mistress with wire hair and pale cheeks and lips. But, at

the end he says, “And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare as any she belied with false compare.” This

means that he believes that his mistress is as beautiful

as any other woman.

Sonnet 130 MEANING

MY MISTRESS’ EYES ARE NOTHING LIKE THE SUN

Sister moon will be my guide

In your blue blue shadows I would hide

All good people asleep tonight

I'm all by myself in your silver light

I would gaze at your face the whole night through

I'd go out of my mind, but for you

Lying in a mother's arms

The primal root of a woman's charms

I'm a stranger to the sun

My eyes are too weak

How cold is a heart

When it's warmth that he seeks?

You watch every night, you don't care what I do

I'd go out of my mind, but for you

I'd go out of my mind, but for you

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun

My hunger for her explains everything I've done

To howl at the moon the whole night through

And they really don't care if I do

I'd go out of my mind, but for you

Sister Moon

SISTER MOON

The singer was trying to interpret the same thing as Shakespeare when he was saying, ‘My mistress’ eyes

are nothing like the sun’. He was referencing to sonnet 130 by Shakespeare. He uses it to convey a better meaning than just saying

that ‘I love her’.