“Black Tragedy lets slip her grim disguise and shows you laughing lips and roguish eyes; but when, unmasked, gay Comedy appears, how wan her cheeks are, and what heavy tears!” ShowsEyeBlackLaughingComedyTearsGayTragedyLipsHeavySlipsCheeksDisguiseGrim Book:Poems Source: Poems
“A young man had become possessed by a devil. The thing within him burst into loud lamentation and departed from the man. At once the youth's eye fell out on his cheek, and the whole of the pupil which had been black became white.” MenWholeEyeYoungBlackReligiousWhiteYouthHe ManDevilScaryLoudYoung ManPossessedCheeksPupilsDepartedLamentation Author:Saint Augustine