Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SONNET, by ALBERT COOTE


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SONNET, by                    
First Line: Your souls are blinded and your eyes deceived
Last Line: And search her out with unencumbered eyes.
Subject(s): Beauty


Your souls are blinded and your eyes deceived,
Ye who find Beauty in a passing rose,
Singing the wonder of each bud that blows
And sighing how the senses are bereaved
When a frail flower fades before the wind.
She has no place in earthly lovelinss
And few are they whose straining hearts may guess
That she is but a phantom of the mind.

Beauty is Song, interminably sung;
The whisper of the wind among the trees,
The verveless drone of clover-seeking bees,
Or music on a winging sky-lark's tongue.
Know these as her etherial disguise
And search her out with unencumbered eyes.





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