(sort of a student-commissioned assignment) and like how it came out. Please let me know of any ways to make it better! I would also advise you to check out the blog of Ariel Sheegog, my housemate and cool college friend. It's at http://inaholeunderthehill.blogspot.com/. Great blog title, right? Anyway, I hope you enjoy the sonnet, and hopefully I'll have more to post before too long.
To See You Smile
You laugh sometimes and I cannot help but
Laugh alongside. Though ne’er have you shown tears,
Mere thoughts of your wet tears which must be cut
My soul--your weeping mine, and laugh my cheer.
Such eyes are yours, such eyes I see alone,
Bright without, dark within, such eyes which light
As if from desert to Neptune’s coast flown;
Or else darken, lost in the cold of night.
All do I chance for but a smile from you:
Sometime succeeding, sometime for naught my
Words gather great courage, your laugh to woo;
And through that laugh, even your heart to pry.
You love me not, my heart to yours futile--
Yet, still, how I do love to see you smile.
