Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, BLIND EYES THAT SEE; SONNET, by SAMUEL A. DE WITT


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BLIND EYES THAT SEE; SONNET, by                    
First Line: These eyes of mine, for all that they have seen
Last Line: Before the inner vision of your eyes.
Subject(s): Blindness; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Vision; Visually Handicapped


These eyes of mine, for all that they have seen,
Have only made such small discovery . . . .
A peacock's plumage dazzling in a preen,
A sunset burning on a summer sea,

Or mountains tippling in the wine of dawn,
Or constellations in their awesome space;
A sparrow and a daisy on the lawn;
Your auraed presence, and your shining face . . . .

For only when I close the shuttered sight
Upon the panoramas of the mind,
I half perceive what all revealing light
Pours out in compensation for the blind,

And half-discern sublimities that rise
Before the inner vision of your eyes.





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