Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SONNET: 26, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY


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First Line: Love is not blind. I see with single eye
Last Line: I wonder only why they prize it so.
Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Beauty; Love - Nature Of


Love is not blind. I see with single eye
Your ugliness and other women's grace.
I know the imperfection of your face, --
The eyes too wide apart, the brow too high
For beauty. Learned from earliest youth am I
In loveliness, and cannot so erase
Its letters from my mind, that I may trace
Your faultless, I must love until I die.
More subtle is the sovereignty of love:
So am I caught when I say, "Not fair,"
'Tis but as if I said, "Not here - not there --
Not risen - not writing letters." Well I know
What is this beauty men are babbling of;
I wonder only why they prize it so.




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