Love is not blind. I see with single eye 
Your ugliness and other women's grace. 
I know the imperfection of your face, 
The eyes too wide apart, the brow too high 
For beauty. Learned from earliest youth am I 
In loveliness, and cannot so erase 
Its letters from my mind, that I may trace 
You faultless, I must love until I die. 
More subtle is the sovereignty of love: 
So am I caught that when I say, "Not fair," 
'Tis but as if I said, "Not here-not there 
Not risen-not writing letters." Well I know 
What is this beauty men are babbling of; 
I wonder only why they prize it so.
Love Is Not Blind. I See With Single Eye
written byEdna St. Vincent Millay
© Edna St. Vincent Millay


 



