@3Who Rallied Him for Praising Blue Eyes in His Verses@1 IF SOMETIMES, in a random phrase (For variation in my ditty), I chance blue eyes, or gray, to praise And seem to intimate them pretty -- It is because I do not dare With too unmixed reiteration To sing the browner eyes and hair That are my true intoxication. Know, then, that I consider brown For ladies' eyes, the only color; And deem all other orbs in town (Compared to yours), opaquer, duller. I pray, perpend, my dearest dear; While blue-eyed maids the praise were drinking, How insubstantial was their cheer -- It was of yours that I was thinking! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BOUND NO'TH BLUES by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES SEA SLUMBER-SONG by RODEN BERKELEY WRIOTHESLEY NOEL INGRATITUDE by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH TO THE NEW YEAR, 1823 by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD THE FALLOW FIELD by JULIA CAROLINE RIPLEY DORR AN APPEAL FOR SAINT GEORGE'S HOSPITAL IN LONDON by JOHN DRINKWATER |