YOU ask me, my dear, in your innocent way, Whether, from what I have seen, I should say Your soft eyes are @3green@1 or are @3blue?@1 For in green eyes, you premised, sly coquetry dwells, While the bonny blue eye ever certainly tells of tenderness trusting and true. Now, love, pray remember, although I have seen In those orbs quite perceptible sparkles of green, That some one is writing to you Whose whole heaven lies in the light of your eyes, More constant and clear than the sheen of the skies, And the color of heaven is blue. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DOWN BY THE CARIB SEA: 6. SUNSET IN THE TROPICS by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON THE LAND OF HEART'S DESIRE by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS WRITTEN AT AN INN AT HENLEY by WILLIAM SHENSTONE PRELUDE by JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE KNOWLEDGE by HENRY DAVID THOREAU WHISPERS OF HEAVENLY DEATH by WALT WHITMAN |