(Born 1875)
Do not trust black eyes, but fear them :—
Gloom they are, and endless night ;
Woes and perils lurking near them—
Love not thou their gleaming bright !
In my heart a sea of blood wells,
Called up by their cruel might,
No calm ever in that flood dwells—
Love not thou their gleaming bright !
Armenian legends and poems by Zabelle C. Boyajian and Aram Raffi, London & New York, 1916.