When Romeo first sees Juliet at the Capulet ball, he is immediately enraptured by her beauty. He immediately asks the servingman at the party who she is. He says that Juliet stands out against the darkness like a jeweled earring in an Ethiopian. He says her "beauty too rich for use, for earth to dear." Compared to the other women at the party, Juliet is like a white dove among crows. He famously says he "ne'er saw true beauty till this night."
In Act II, during the famous balcony scene, Romeo glorifies Juliet's beauty by saying Juliet is the sun. He says even the moon is jealous of Juliet's beauty. He compares her eyes to the two brightest stars who had to go away but "do entreat in her eyes." He says her eyes are so bright and if they were stars that "that birds would sing and think it were not night." He refers to Juliet as "bright angel," "a winged messenger of heaven."
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