Sonnet 20: A Woman's Face With Nature's Own Hand Painted

A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted
Hast thou, the master-mistress of my passion;
A woman's gentle heart, but not acquainted
With shifting change, as is false women's fashion;
An eye more bright than theirs, less false in rolling,
Gilding the object whereupon it gazeth;
A man in hue, all hues in his controlling,
Which steals men's eyes and women's souls amazeth.
And for a woman wert thou first created,
Till Nature, as she wrought thee, fell a-doting,

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  Allen Ginsberg
  June 3, 1926 - April 5, 1997 / Newark, New Jersey
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  Clark Ashton Smith
  January 13, 1893 – August 14, 1961
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  Saadi Shirazi
  Sa'di] (1814-1291 / Iran
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  John Bannister Tabb
  1845-1909 / the United States
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  Nizar Qabbani
  1923 - 1998 / Damascus / Syria
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  نزار قباني
  1923-1998