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Sonnet 20 by William Shakespeare, Feb 7, 2012 Daily Sonnet: A woman's face with nature's own hand painted...

<p>A woman's face with nature's own hand painted, <br/>Hast thou, the master mistress of my passion; <br/>A woman's gentle heart, but not acquainted <br/>With shifting change, as is false women's fashion: <br/>An eye more bright than theirs, less false in rolling, <br/>Gilding the object whereupon it gazeth; <br/>A man in hue all hues in his controlling, <br/>Which steals men's eyes and women's souls amazeth. <br/>And for a woman wert thou first created; <br/>Till Nature, as she wrought thee, fell a-doting, <br/>And by addition me of thee defeated, <br/>By adding one thing to my purpose nothing. <br/>But since she prick'd thee out for women's pleasure, <br/>Mine be thy love and thy love's use their treasure.<br/><a href="http://www.web-l.com/shakespeare/poetry/sonnets/19/" title="sonnet 19">&lt;previous</a> <a href="http://www.web-l.com/shakespeare/poetry/sonnets/" title="index of Shakespeare's sonnets by first line">index</a> <a href="http://www.web-l.com/shakespeare/poetry/sonnets/21/" title="sonnet 21">next&gt;</a></p> <script src="http://feeds.web-l.com/~s/ShakespeareSonnetOfTheDay?i=http://www.web-l.com/shakespeare/poetry/sonnets/sonnet-of-the-day/15266/" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script> <div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.web-l.com/~ff/ShakespeareSonnetOfTheDay?a=uAfLBpHcjlM:XvxBWi_H450:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ShakespeareSonnetOfTheDay?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.web-l.com/~ff/ShakespeareSonnetOfTheDay?a=uAfLBpHcjlM:XvxBWi_H450:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ShakespeareSonnetOfTheDay?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.web-l.com/~ff/ShakespeareSonnetOfTheDay?a=uAfLBpHcjlM:XvxBWi_H450:bcOpcFrp8Mo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ShakespeareSonnetOfTheDay?d=bcOpcFrp8Mo" border="0"></img></a> </div>