The Eyes of My Regret by Angelina Weld Grimke

The Eyes of My regret by Angelina Weld Grimke appeared in County Collins' anthology, Caroling Dusk, published in 1927. The Transfixing Gaze of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is transposed in this unriamed sonnet to the speaker's projected landscape of guilt. Maureen Honey concludes that these verses echo what Anna Clark calls Twilight Moments in the era before modern sexual identities. While not a conscious code for lesbianism, Grimke's frequent use of Twilight shapes similar liminal spaces as her speakers ruminate on lost love.