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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  Carl Sandburg
  6 January 1878 – 22 July 1967 / Illinois
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  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  5 November 1850 - 30 October 1919 / Johnstown Center / Rock County / Wisconsin
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  Dorothy Parker
  22 August 1893 - 7 June 1967 / Long Branch / New Jersey
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  Pablo Neruda
  July 12, 1904 / Parral, Chile - September 23, 1973 / Santiago, Chile
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  Ezra Pound
  30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972 / Hailey / Idaho
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  Robert Burns
  1759-1796 / Ayrshire / Scotland