"You shine like the sun." "Your eyes sparkle like stars." "I wish I could be the glove you have on your hand so you would lean your cheek against me that way." It's some seriously good stuff, especially since it was written in the late 16th century, before most of that stuff had been said a gajillion times. Romeo gasps, and then launches into a paragraph's worth of great pick up lines. Romeo is wandering aimlessly around the Capulet backyard when you-know-who appears on the balcony. Here it is, Shmoopsters-the famous balcony scene! O, that I were a glove upon that hand, 25 See how she leans her cheek upon her hand. That birds would sing and think it were not night. Would through the airy region stream so bright The brightness of her cheek would shame thoseĪs daylight doth a lamp her eye in heaven What if her eyes were there, they in her head? To twinkle in their spheres till they return. Having some business, do entreat her eyes Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, 15 That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she.Īnd none but fools do wear it. Who is already sick and pale with grief 5 He jests at scars that never felt a wound.īut soft, what light through yonder window breaks?Īrise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
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