Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, HER BEAUTIFUL EYES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY


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First Line: O her beautiful eyes! They are as blue as the dew
Last Line: So I grope through the night of her beautiful eyes.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Beauty; Eyes; Love; Spring


O HER beautiful eyes! they are as blue as the dew
On the violet's bloom when the morning is new,
And the light of their love is the gleam of the sun
O'er the meadows of Spring where the quick shadows run:
As the morn shifts the mists and the clouds from the skies --
So I stand in the dawn of her beautiful eyes.

And her beautiful eyes are as midday to me,
When the lily-bell bends with the weight of the bee,
And the throat of the thrush is apulse in the heat,
And the senses are drugged with the subtle and sweet
And delirious breaths of the air's lullabies --
So I swoon in the noon of her beautiful eyes.

O her beautiful eyes! they have smitten mine own
As a glory glanced down from the glare of The Throne;
And I reel, and I falter and fall, as afar
Fell the shepherds that looked on the mystical Star,
And yet dazed in the tidings that bade them arise --
So I grope through the night of her beautiful eyes.





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