During those years in Stamps, I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare. He was my first white love.... it was Shakespeare w...ho said, "When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes." It was a state of mind with which I found myself most familiar. I pacified myself about his whiteness by saying that after all he had been dead so long it couldn't matter to anyone any more.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Eyes I shall not see unless At the door of death's other kingdom... Where, as in this, The eyes outlast a little while A little while outlast the tears And hold us in derision.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Eyes that last I saw in tears Through division... Here in death's dream kingdom The golden vision reappears I see the eyes but not the tears This is my afflictionLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If, as they say, some dust thrown in my eyes Will keep my talk from getting overwise,... I'm not the one for putting off the proof.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »