"Thine eye the glasse where I behold my hart, / mine eye the window, through the which thine eye / may see my hart, and there thy selfe espye / in bloudie colours how thou painted art."
— Constable, Henry (1562-1613)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by I[ohn] C[harlewood] for Richard Smith
Date
1592
Metaphor
"Thine eye the glasse where I behold my hart, / mine eye the window, through the which thine eye / may see my hart, and there thy selfe espye / in bloudie colours how thou painted art."
Metaphor in Context
Thine eye the glasse where I behold my hart, ☜
mine eye the window, through the which thine eye
may see my hart, and there thy selfe espye
in bloudie colours how thou painted art.
Thine eye the pyle is of a murdring dart,
mine eye the sight thou tak'st thy leuell by
to hit my hart, and neuer shootes awry;
mine eye thus helpes thine eye to worke my smart.
Thine eye a fier is both in heate and light,
mine eye of teares a riuer doth become:
Oh that the water of mine eye had might
to quench the flames that from thine eyes doo come.
Or that the fier kindled by thine eye,
the flowing streames of mine eyes could make drie.
mine eye the window, through the which thine eye
may see my hart, and there thy selfe espye
in bloudie colours how thou painted art.
Thine eye the pyle is of a murdring dart,
mine eye the sight thou tak'st thy leuell by
to hit my hart, and neuer shootes awry;
mine eye thus helpes thine eye to worke my smart.
Thine eye a fier is both in heate and light,
mine eye of teares a riuer doth become:
Oh that the water of mine eye had might
to quench the flames that from thine eyes doo come.
Or that the fier kindled by thine eye,
the flowing streames of mine eyes could make drie.
Provenance
Reading Herbert Grabes, The Mutable Glass: Mirror-Imagery in Titles and Texts of the Middle Ages and English Renaissance (Cambridge UP, 1982), p. 85.
Citation
Text from Diana. The Praises of his Mistres, in Certaine Sweete Sonnets. By H.C. (London: Printed by I[ohn] C[harlewood] for Richard Smith, 1592). <Link to EEBO-TCP>
Date of Entry
09/28/2013
