Re: McKinley: my mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun

From: Liera Maja <sgoings@indiana.edu>
Date: Thu Oct 26 2000 - 21:39:57 PDT

Sonnet number 130 for Shakespeare, and Matthew Arnold's Dover Beach has
...And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night...

Nice melancholy poem.

Regards,

Liera

On Fri, 27 Oct 2000 Amessygurl@aol.com wrote:

> hello! could someone please tell me what number sonnet(of shakespeare's)
> begins "my mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun"? also, last monday(at one
> am!) i was watching a "beauty and the beast" rerun on the odyssey channel,
> and one of the characters quoted(or intentionally misquoted?) something about
> a "darkling plain...where ignorant armies clash by night" - does anyone know
> who/what this is from?!? thanks!
>
> take care,
> cameron
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>
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