by Coleridge · Cluster: Unrequited Frustrated Love · Unattainable Beloved · Petrarchan Sonnet
Abstract
Epigram on why Love is blind: his eyes are in his mind, seeing inward goodness with the heart. Themes of love and inward versus outward worth.
Connections
Archetypes: Lover Motifs: Eyes and Sight Themes & Concepts: Romantic Love, Appearance vs Reality, Truth Forms & Genres: Epigram
Testo integrale / Full text
I have heard of reasons manifold
Why Love must needs be blind,
But this the best of all I hold —
His eyes are in his mind.
What outward form and feature are 5
He guesseth but in part;
But that within is good and fair
He seeth with the heart.
? 1811.