Constancy
Your eyes—deep wells of blueness Reflect the steady flame That is your gentle spirit, Is Constancy your name? For always it burns brightly: The candle that is you! No harsh wind sways to dimness This light so ever true.
Your eyes—deep wells of blueness Reflect the steady flame That is your gentle spirit, Is Constancy your name? For always it burns brightly: The candle that is you! No harsh wind sways to dimness This light so ever true.
Someone is being praised here, and the speaker pays the compliment in a single sustained image: a steady flame. It starts with the beloved's eyes, described as deep blue wells, and what those wells reflect is a burning light, which the speaker takes to be the person's gentle spirit. That leads to a playful question, "Is Constancy your name?", as if the person were so reliable that the word itself could be a name. The title makes the same point.
The second half turns the flame into a candle and adds a threat: wind. But no harsh wind can dim it. The speaker admires a person who stays warm and unchanged whatever happens around them. The mood is tender and admiring, even a little hushed, and the short lines and regular rhymes (name/flame, you/true) give it a calm, dependable rhythm that mirrors the loyalty it describes.