| Francis T. Palgrave, ed. (1824–1897). The Golden Treasury. 1875. |
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| W. Shakespeare |
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| XXXIX. Blind Love |
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| 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? | |
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| If that be fair whereon my false eyes dote, | 5 |
| 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, | |
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| How can it? O how can Love's eye be true, | |
| That is so vex'd with watching and with tears? | 10 |
| No marvel then though I mistake my view: | |
| The sun itself sees not till heaven clears. | |
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| O cunning Love! with tears thou keep'st me blind, | |
| Lest eyes well-seeing thy foul faults should find! | |
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