Answer To A Sonnet By J.H.Reynolds

by John Keats — a poem card from Justes Mots

Keats celebrates the color blue and its manifestations in nature—from sky and ocean to flowers—before climaxing with a declaration that blue gains its greatest power when alive in a lover's eye. Written as a response to J.H. Reynolds' sonnet, this piece transforms a color into a meditation on love's transformative gaze. Ideal for romantic occasions or framing as a love tribute.

Dark eyes are dearer far
Than those that mock the hyacinthine bell.

Blue! 'Tis the life of heaven, the domain
Of Cynthia, the wide palace of the sun,
The tent of Hesperus, and all his train,
The bosomer of clouds, gold, gray, and dun.
Blue! 'Tis the life of waters: Ocean…

Themes: love · new-baby · wedding · friendship