Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET: 148, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: O me, what eyes hath love put in my head Last Line: Lest eyes well-seeing thy foul faults should find! Variant Title(s): Blind Love Subject(s): Love - Complaints | ||||||||
O ME! what eyes hath Love put in my head Which have no correspondence with true sight! Or, if they have, where is my judgment fled That censures falsely what they see aright? If that be fair whereon my false eyes dote, What means the world to say it is not so? If it be not, then love doth well denote Love's eye is not so true as all men's: No, How can it? O how can Love's eye be true, That is so vexed with watching and with tears? No marvel then, though I mistake my view: The sun itself sees not till heaven clears. O cunning Love! with tears thou keep'st me blind, Lest eyes well-seeing thy foul faults should find! | Other Poems of Interest...VARIATIONS: 13 by CONRAD AIKEN TALKING RICHARD WILSON BLUES, BY RICHARD CLAY WILSON by DENIS JOHNSON THE BRIDGE by ALEXANDER ANDERSON THE RABBI'S SON-IN-LAW by SABINE BARING-GOULD MISGIVINGS by WILLIAM MATTHEWS THROUGH AGONY: 1 by CLAUDE MCKAY HEMATITE HEIRLOOM LIVES ON (MAYBE DECEMBER 1980) by ALICE NOTLEY QUICK AND BITTER by YEHUDA AMICHAI |
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