Time has seen an infinite amount of beauty in its long existence. Nature has

produced so many wonderful scenes and objects that we cannot collect it all even in one

life. We ourselves are keepers of such beauty and intrigue that poets and other writers

have captured our essence in prose. Whether it’s beauty that is skin deep or the beauty of

a face that makes you look twice, what attracts us is not always what attracts your

neighbor. Shakespeare’s, “My Mistress’ Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun,” and Lord

Byron’s, “She Walks in Beauty,” are the epitome of what men and women long for.

Although different in their interpretations of beauty, they hold true to the meaning of

In Shakespeare’s “My Mistress’ Eyes are Nothing like the Sun,” beauty is

definitely only skin deep. Shakespeare’s description of his love is an abomination to the

quintessential woman every man lusts for. He describes her as having, “black wires grow

on her head” (Mistress line 4), instead of th

what she has to say to him and the way she say’s, “I Love You” is like music in

else, only he knows her true beauty, and that lies deep inside her. Beauty is not just a

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, to coin the well over-used phrase. William

perhaps because she was a horrible person. She may have been stuck up and snobby, and

see that beauty doesn’t always have to lay with perfection. Everyone today is so wrapped

or just someone he had made up. At any rate, Lord Byron’s depiction of this mysterious

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