I. I THINK I've looked on eyes that shone With equal splendour, And some, but they are dimmed and gone, As wildly tender. I never looked on eyes that shed Such home-light mingled with such beauty,-- That 'mid all lights and shadows said, "I love and trust and will be true to ye." II. I've seen some lips almost as red, A form as stately; And some such beauty turned my head Not very lately. But not till now I've seen a girl With form so proud, lips so delicious, With hair like night, and teeth of pearl, -- Who was not haughty and capricious. III. Oh, fairer than the dawn of day On Erne's islands! Oh, purer than the thorn spray In Bantry's highlands! In sleep such visions crossed my view, And when I woke the phantom faded; But now I find the fancy true, And fairer than the vision made it. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HAWORTH CHURCHYARD by MATTHEW ARNOLD THE CRY OF THE CHILDREN by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING SHERIDAN AT CEDAR CREEK by HERMAN MELVILLE EPITAPHIUM CITHARISTRIAE by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR THE WATER WHEEL by ABU ABD ALLAH |