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So I had to read this sonnet, among many others for literature class.. & I am a sucker for most sonnets, but this one is talking about his lover’s dark eyes -well I am thinking that instead of being seen as average or ordinary, dark eyes should always be viewed in this way:
“When Nature made her chief work, Stella’s eyes,
In color black why wrapped she beams so bright?
Would she in beamy black, like painter wise,
Frame daintiest luster, mixed of shades and light?
Or did she else that sober hue devise,
In object best to knit and strengthen our sight,
Lest if no veil those brave gleams did disguise,
They sun-like should more dazzle than delight?
Or would she her miraculous power show,
That whereas black seems beauty’s contrary,
She even in black doth make all beauties flow?
Both so and thus: she, minding Love should be
Placed ever there, game him this mourning weed,
To honor all their deaths, who for her bleed.”
-Sir Philip Sidney
(From Astrophil and Stella)
“When Nature made her chief work, Stella’s eyes,
In color black why wrapped she beams so bright?
Would she in beamy black, like painter wise,
Frame daintiest luster, mixed of shades and light?
Or did she else that sober hue devise,
In object best to knit and strengthen our sight,
Lest if no veil those brave gleams did disguise,
They sun-like should more dazzle than delight?
Or would she her miraculous power show,
That whereas black seems beauty’s contrary,
She even in black doth make all beauties flow?
Both so and thus: she, minding Love should be
Placed ever there, game him this mourning weed,
To honor all their deaths, who for her bleed.”
-Sir Philip Sidney
(From Astrophil and Stella)