From The Book of Duke of True Lovers, trans. Allice Kemp-Welch (London: Chatto and Windus, 1908) p. 526

CHRISTINE DE PIZAN

French; fifteenth century

Laughing grey eyes, whose light in me I bear.
Deep in my heart's remembrance and delight,
Remembrance is so infinite delight
Of your brightness, O soft eyes that I fear.

Of love-sickness my life had perished here,
But you raise up my strength in death's respite,
Laughing grey eyes, whose light in me I bear.

Certes by you my heart, I see full clear,
Shall of desire attain at last the height,
Even that my lady, through your sovereign might,
May we continue in her service dear,
Laughing grey eyes, whose light in me I bear.