I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind: I'm sure my language to her, was as sweet, And every close did meet In sentence, of as subtle feet, As hath the youngest he, That sits in shadow of Apollo's tree. Oh, but my conscious fears, That fly my thoughts between, Tell me that she hath seen My hundreds of gray hairs, Told seven and forty years. Read so much waist, as she cannot embrace My mountain belly, and my rocky face, And all these through her eyes, have stopped her ears. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A RECIPE FOR SALAD by SYDNEY SMITH THE ANT-HEAP by ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON IN A LETTER TO A.R.C. ON HER WISHING TO BE CALLED ANNA by MATILDA BARBARA BETHAM-EDWARDS THE KING'S PICTURE by HELEN LOUISE BARRON BOSTWICK A PEASANT WOMAN'S SONG by DION BOUCICAULT WINTER SONG by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN |