Ian’s Reviews > Venus and Adonis > Status Update

Line 517

“But hers, which through the crystal tears gave light,
Shone like the moon in water seen by night.”

Gorgeous and straightforward metaphors and similes, great entry point for Shakespeare.

On line 493

“Had I no eyes but ears, my ears would love
That inward beauty and invisible.
Or were I deaf, thy outward parts would move
Each part in me that were but sensible.
Though neither eyes, nor ears, to hear nor see,
Yet should I be in love by touching thee.”

On line 457 now

He’s just not that into you… Line 367

Line 301 Shakespeare really had a vision for what the ideal horse should look like.

“That thine may live when thou thyself art dead;
And so in spite of death thou dost survive,
In that thy likeness still is left alive.”

Venus is relentless, I’m almost sure I’ll give this 5 stars.

““Is thine own heart to thine own face affected?
Can thy right hand seize love upon thy left?
Then woo thyself, be of thyself rejected;
Steal thine own freedom, and complain on theft.
Narcissus so himself himself forsook
And died to kiss his shadow in the brook.”

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“Look in mine eyeballs; there thy beauty lies.
Then why not lips on lips, since eyes in eyes?”