Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET OF BLACK BEAUTY, by EDWARD HERBERT Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Black beauty, which, above that common light Last Line: Our darkness which can make us think it dark. Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord Variant Title(s): Of Black Beauty Subject(s): Black (color) | ||||||||
BLACK beauty, which, above that common light, Whose power can no colours here renew But those which darkness can again subdue, Dost still remain unvari'd to the sight, And like an object equal to the view, Art neither chang'd with day, nor hid with night; When all these colours which the world call bright, And which old poetry doth so pursue, Are with the night so perished and gone That of their being there remains no mark, Thou still abidest so entirely one, That we may know thy blackness is a spark Of light inaccessible, and alone Our darkness which can make us think it dark. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...GRADATIONS OF BLACK (THIRD FLOOR, WHITNEY MUSEUM) by JOHN UPDIKE ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 7 by PHILIP SIDNEY MY BLINDNESS by HERMAN J. D. CARTER ANOTHER SONNET TO BLACK IT SELF by EDWARD HERBERT THE BROWN BEAUTY by EDWARD HERBERT ON ELLEN GOING WRONG by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON BLACK PINE TREE IN AN ORANGE LIGHT by SYLVIA PLATH AN ODE UPON A QUESTION WHETHER LOVE SHOULD CONTINUE FOREVER by EDWARD HERBERT DITTY IN IMITATION OF THE SPANISH: ENTRE TANTO QUE L'AVRIL by EDWARD HERBERT EPITAPH FOR SIR PHILIP SIDNEY, AT ST. PAUL'S WITHOUT A MONUMENT ... by EDWARD HERBERT |
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