"My mistress' eyes"
This poem seems to have a negative connotation, but is in fact a very good compliment. Most girls would love to hear this. He says that he is not going to lie to her and say that she is as beautiful as all of nature's greatest works of art. But he says that she is as beautiful as all of the girls who ARE complimented by being compared to these things. And the love that she receives from him is more sincere than those other girls receive because he isn't going to lie to her. Through his honesty at the end of the poem, you realize that his lover is not ugly. She could in fact be very pretty. But her features should not be compared to sunsets of coral or snow because those things are of nature, and she is simply a human being. It gives a real sense of humanity to the poems. We are not perfect, no matter how much we want to believe. The speaker realizes this.
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