| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| Love’s Blindness |
| | | William James Linton (1812–97) |
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| THEY call her fair. I do not know: | |
| I never thought to look. | |
| Who heeds the binder’s costliest show | |
| When he may read the book? | |
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| What need a list of parts to me | 5 |
| When I possess the whole? | |
| Who only watch her eyes to see | |
| The color of her soul. | |
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| I may not praise her mouth, her chin, | |
| Her feet, her hands, her arms: | 10 |
| My love lacks leisure to begin | |
| The schedule of her charms. | |
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| To praise is only to compare: | |
| And therefore Love is blind. | |
| I lov’d before I was aware | 15 |
| Her beauty was of kind. | |
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