ON women Nature did bestow two eyes, Like heaven's bright lamps, in matchless beauty shining, Whose beams do soonest captivate the wise, And wary heads, made rare by art's refining. But why did Nature, in her choice combining, Plant two fair eyes within a beauteous face, That they might favour two with equal grace? Venus did soothe up Vulcan with one eye, With th'other granted Mars his wishèd glee: If she did so who Hymen did defy, Think love no sin, but grant an eye to me; In vain else Nature gave two stars to thee: If then two eyes may well two friends maintain, Allow of two, and prove not Nature vain. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A POET'S WELCOME TO HIS LOVE-BEGOTTEN DAUGHTER by ROBERT BURNS THE MASTER-PLAYER by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR ELOISA TO ABELARD by ALEXANDER POPE EPITAPH FOR ONE WHO WOULD NOT BE BURIED IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY by ALEXANDER POPE AN OLD WOMAN: 1 by EDITH SITWELL CHICAGO [OCTOBER 8-10, 1871] by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER POEM FOR PICTURE: TO A DRAWING OF A HORSE BY GEORGIO DI CHIRICO by FRANK ANKENBRAND JR. |