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248 EYES

Tell me, eyes, what 'tis ye're seeking;
For ye're saying something sweet,
Fit the ravish'd ear to greet.
Eloquently, softly speaking.
Goethe—April.


On woman Nature did bestow two eyes,
Like Hemian's bright lamps, in matchless beauty
shining,
Whose beams do soonest captivate the wise
And wary heads, made rare by art's refining.
Robert Greene—Philomela. Sonnet.


Wenn ich in deine Augen seh'
So schwindet all' mein Leid und Weh.
Whene'er into thine eyes I see,
All pain and sorrow fly from me.
Heine—Lyrisches Intermezzo. IV.
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 | text = Die blauen Veilchen der Aeugelein.
Those blue violets, her eyes.
Heine—Lyrisches Intermezzo. XXXI.
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 | text = I everywhere am thinking
Of thy blue eyes' sweet smile;
A sea of blue thoughts is spreading
Over my heart the while.
Heine—New Spring. Pt. XVIII. St. 2.


The eyes have one language everywhere.
 | author = Herbert
 | work = 1—Jacula Prudentum.


The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
Herodotus. 1. 8.


Her eyes the glow-worme lend thee,
The shooting starres attend thee;
And the elves also,
Whose little eyes glow
Like the sparks of fire, befriend thee.
 | author = Herrick
 | work = The Night Piece to Julia.
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We credit most our sight; one eye doth please
Our trust farre more than ten eare-witnesses.
 | author = Herrick
 | work = Hesperides. The Eyes Before the
Ears.


It is an active flame that flies
First to the babies in the eyes.
 | author = Herrick
 | work = The Kiss.
 | seealso = (See also Beaumont)


Thine eye was on the censer,
And not the hand that bore it.
Holmes—Lines by a Clerk.


Dark eyes—eternal soul of pride!
Deep life in all that's true!

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Away, away to other skies I
Away o'er seas and sands!
Such eyes as those were never made
To shine in other lands.
Leland—Cattirhoe.


I have neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak
but as the constitution is pleased to direct me,
whose servant I am.
Speaker Lenthal to Charles I. As quoted
EYES
by Wendell Phtliips—Under the Flag.
Boston, April 21, 1861.
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 Der Blick des Forschers fand
Nicht selten mebr, als er zu finden wunschte.
The eye of Paul Pry often finds more than
he wished to find.
Lessing—Nathan der Weise. II. 8.


As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you.
Lincoln to the South Carolina Commissioners.
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 | text = <poem>And thy deep eyes, amid the gloom,
Shine like jewels in a shroud.
 | author = Longfellow
 | work = Christus. Golden Legend. Pt. IV.


The flash of his keen, black eyes
Forerunning the thunder.
 | author = Longfellow
 | work = Christus. Golden Legend. Pt. IV.


I dislike an eye that twinkles like a star.
Those only are beautiful which, like the planets,
have a steady, lambent light,—are luminous,
but not sparkling.

LongfellowHyperion. Bk. III. Ch. IV.


O lovely eyes of azure,
Clear as the waters of a brook that run
Limpid and laughing in the summer sun!
 | author = Longfellow
 | work = Masque of Pandora. Pt. I.
 Within her tender eye
The heaven of April, with its changing light.
 | author = Longfellow
 | work = Spirit of Poetry. L. 45.


Since your eyes are so sharpe, that you cannot
onely looke through a milstone, but cleane
through the minde.
LYLY—Euphves and his England. P. 289.


The light of the body is the eye.
Matthew. VI. 22.


Where did you get your eyes so blue?
Out of the sky as I came through.
Geo. MacDonald—Song in "At the Back of the North Wind." Ch. XXXIII.
 Those true eyes
Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise
The sweet soul shining through them.

Owen Meredith (Lord Lytton)—Lucile. Pt. II. Canto II. St. 3.
(See also Gautter)


Among the blind the one-eyed blinkard reigns.
Andrew Marvel—Description of Holland.
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 | text = <poem>And looks commercing with the skies,
Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes.
 | author = Milton
 | work = Il Penseroso. L. 39.
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Ladies, whose bright eyes
Rain influence.
 | author = Milton
 | work = L'Allegro. L. 121.