Please help...analyze Edward Herbert's In Her Eyes poem?

Answer 1

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To her Eyes

by Edward, Lord Herbert of Chirbury

BLACK eyes if you seem dark,

It is because your beams are deep,

And with your soul united keep :

Who could discern

Enough into them, there might learn,

Whence they derive that mark ;

And how their power is such,

That all the wonders which proceed from thence,

Affecting more the mind than sense,

Are not so much

The works of light, as influence.

As you then joined are

Unto the Soul, so it again

By its connexion doth pertain

To that first cause,

Who giving all their proper Laws,

By you doth best declare

How he at first being hid

Within the veil of an eternal night,

Did frame for us a second light,

And after bid

It serve for ordinary sight.

His image then you are.

If there be any yet who doubt

What power it is that doth look out

Through that your black,

He will not an example lack,

If he suppose that there

Were grey, or hazel Glass,

And that through them, though sight or soul might shine,

He must yet at the last define,

That beams which pass

Through black, cannot be but divine.