Heart skips a beat

Found a flat on trademe that is perfect. Hope and pray it's the one! Spent entire day at uni today which is unusual for me. I'm more of a turn up for class then skedaddle type student. It's late so I'm just going to share my favourite sonnet today, which I was thinking about the other day. My yr13 English teacher introduced it to me  and it's been a favourite of mine ever since.

Sonnet 130

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.

- William Shakespeare