Sonnet 29

Sonnet 29 is the name of a short story from ''Week in Review. Part of the Chronicles of Glenscar, it takes place after A Widow in Waiting and either before, or during, Playing With Fire. ''It takes place on the wedding night of Count Aniri Yastruba, also known as "Thunder", king of the Warbirds, as he seduces his love with misquoted poetry, with one line interjected by his new Countess:

Thunder's misquoted poem:

"My lady's eyes are nothing like the sun.

Coral is far more red than her lips' red.

If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun...

If hair be wires, why then gold wires grow on her head."

"Have you seen roses, damask'd red and white?"

"I have, but no such roses see I in these cheeks.

And in some perfumes is there a great deal more delight than in the breath that from my lady reeks--and never did word change its meaning quite so aptly from that time to this," he added with a grin, and caught the blow aimed for his ear on his palm. "I love to hear her speak, yet well I know that music hath a far more pleasing sound. I grant I never saw a goddess go; my lady, when she walks, treads on the ground..."

He paused, looking down into the laughing gray eyes lifted to his. "And yet, by heaven," he said quietly, but with full emphasis, "I think my love as rare as any she belied with false compare."