EYE.
A gray eye is a sly eye,
And roguish is a brown one;
Turn full upon me thy eye,—
Ah, how its wavelets drown one!
A blue eye is a true eye;
Mysterious is a dark one,
Which flashes like a spark-sun!
A black eye is the best one.
Oriental Poetry: Mirza Shaffy on Eyes. W.B. ALGER.
O lovely eyes of azure,
Clear as the waters of a brook that run
Limpid and laughing in the summer sun!
The Masque of Pandora, Pt. I. H.W. LONGFELLOW.
Within her tender eye
The heaven of April, with its changing light.
The Spirit of Poetry. H.W. LONGFELLOW.
Her two blue windows faintly she up-heaveth,
Like the fair sun, when in his fresh array
He cheers the morn, and all the earth relieveth;
And as the bright sun glorifies the sky,
So is her face illumined with her eye.
Venus and Adonis. SHAKESPEARE.
Blue eyes shimmer with angel glances,
Like spring violets over the lea.
October's Song. C.F. WOOLSON.
The harvest of a quiet eye,
That broods and sleeps OH his own heart.
A Poet Epitaph. W. WORDSWORTH.
Stabbed with a white wench's black eye.
Romeo and Juliet, Act ii. Sc. 4. SHAKESPEARE.
Sometimes from her eyes
I did receive fair speechless messages.
Merchant of Venice, Act i. Sc. 1. SHAKESPEARE.
For where is any author in the world
Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye?
Love's Labor's Lost, Act iv. Sc. 3. SHAKESPEARE.
Heart on her lips, and soul within her eyes,
Soft as her clime, and sunny as her skies.
Beppo. LORD BYRON.
The fringed curtains of thine eye advance.
The Tempest, Act i. Sc. 2. SHAKESPEARE.
Alas! how little can a moment show
Of an eye where feeling plays
In ten thousand dewy rays;
A face o'er which a thousand shadows go.
The Triad. W. WORDSWORTH.