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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` (FRAGMENT FROM AN UNFINISHED POEM), by PAUL ANTSCHEL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The grass of your eyes, bitter grass
Last Line: The water of your eyes, forgiven water
Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul
Subject(s): Eyes


A BIT OF HUMAN NATURE, by CHARLES WASHINGTON COLEMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tis only a pair of woman's eyes
Last Line: But I am only a man.
Subject(s): Eyes; Ignorance; Dullness; Stupdity


A CHALLENGE, by THEODOCIA PEARCE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I list with the ears of my soul to the world
Last Line: And they say I am blind.
Subject(s): Blindness; Deafness; Eyes; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Soul; Visually Handicapped


A DANIEL COME TO JUDGMENT, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Misjudged, misread, mistrusted, unappeased
Last Line: And stripped of his disguise!
Subject(s): Anger; Eyes; Judgments; Passion


A DREAM OF BLUE EYES, by FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I left thee when the midnight bell had tolled
Last Line: Where spirits all of blue into my soul did gaze!
Subject(s): Eyes


A LOOK, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I would not stop you on your way
Last Line: Will redeem every sacrifice.
Subject(s): Eyes; Flutes; Foreheads; Pity


A PICTURE AND A PLEA, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes, your head a little downward bent
Last Line: And bear sufficing witness of my love.
Subject(s): Eyes; Love; Silence; Soul; Tears; Voices


A PROPER ROUNDELAY, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: See thou, my joy, my care
Last Line: Through beauty beyond compare.
Subject(s): Beauty; Eyes; Faces; Happiness; Love; Joy; Delight


A REASONABLE AFFLICTION (3), by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Her eye-brow box one morning lost
Last Line: For what's an eye without a brow.
Subject(s): Eyes


A SKETCH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The blindest buzzard that I know
Last Line: Where? What? And turn away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Blindness; Eyes; Visually Handicapped


A SONNET IN DIALOGUE, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come to the terrace, may, the sun is low
Last Line: There are no eyes more beautiful than yours!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Eyes


A TUS OJOS, by ARTHUR PETERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lady, whence come those ebon eyes of thine
Last Line: Together 'mongst the men and maids of spain.
Subject(s): Eyes


A VOLUNTEER'S GRAVE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not long ago it was a bird
Last Line: Than this dead boy!
Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Graves; Sleep; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones


ABASEMENT, by THOMAS ANSTEY GUTHERIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With matted head a-dabble in the dust
Last Line: Yet learn that strange delight may lurk in self-disgust.
Alternate Author Name(s): Anstey, F.
Subject(s): Eyes; Poverty; Self-criticism


ABOUT, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Facts about the iris
Last Line: It’s tomorrow. Call out for someone
Subject(s): Eyes


AGAINST THY KNEES, by STUART MERRILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Against thy knees my pallid brow
Last Line: The kingdom they have robbed me of.
Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Knees; Love; Singing & Singers; Voices; Dead, The


AH, SLEEP-RAVISH ED EYES, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Oh, eyes dark, deep!
Subject(s): Eyes


AMBITION AND ART, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am the maid of the lustrous eyes
Last Line: That lives for ever.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Ambition; Art & Artists; Eyes; Life; Love; Soul


AMBOYNA: EPITHALAMIUM, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The day is come, I see it rise
Last Line: And now despairing shuts her eyes.
Subject(s): Eyes; Love; Marriage; Virginity; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Vestals


AMORETTI: 35, by EDMUND SPENSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My hungry eyes, through greedy covetise
Last Line: And all their showes but shadowes, saving she.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin
Subject(s): Eyes


AMORETTI: 7, by EDMUND SPENSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair eyes! The mirror of my mazed heart
Last Line: Such death the sad ensample of your might.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin
Subject(s): Eyes


AMORETTI: 83, by EDMUND SPENSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let not one spark of filthy lustful fire
Last Line: And blesse your fortunes fayre election.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin
Subject(s): Eyes


AMORETTI: 9, by EDMUND SPENSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Long-while I sought to what I might compare
Last Line: Whose light doth lighten all that here we see.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin
Subject(s): Eyes


AN APPEAL FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910)    Poem Text                    
First Line: Deaf! Not a murmur or a loving word
Last Line: Making the dumb to speak, the deaf to hear.
Subject(s): Deafness; Eyes; Sight; Touch (sense)


APPRIZALS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I make apprizal of the maiden moon
Last Line: That ever looked through eyes!
Variant Title(s): Apprisals
Subject(s): Eyes; Night; Soul; Bedtime


AS LONG AS YOUR EYES ARE BLUE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Will you love me, sweet, when my hair is grey
Last Line: Just as long as your eyes are blue.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Eyes; Love; Soul; Youth


ASSOCIATIONS WITH A VIEW FROM THE HOUSE, by CARL RAKOSI    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What can be compared to
Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann
Subject(s): Eyes; Vision


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 7, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When nature made her chief work, stella's eyes
Last Line: To honour all their deaths, who for her bleed.
Subject(s): Black (color); Eyes


AUBADE, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS    Poem Text                    
First Line: When fair hyperion dons his night attire
Last Line: As storms in june or blossom-boughs in may.
Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri
Subject(s): Eyes; Flowers; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Spring


AUTUMN IMPRESSION, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A frost came overnight. Then all the day
Last Line: A haunt for spirits and a home for stars.
Subject(s): Autumn; Earth; Eyes; Frost; Leaves; Seasons; Stars; Fall; World


BABY'S EYES, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wise is the baby with eyes of brown
Last Line: Wilful baby with eyes of black.
Subject(s): Babies; Eyes; Infants


BALLADE: 19, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And if an eye may save or slay
Last Line: Then fear not the eye to show the heart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Betrayal; Eyes; Grief; Hearts; Sorrow; Sadness


BALLADE: 30, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All ye that know of care and heaviness
Last Line: That it stunned their song thorough all the wood.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Eyes; Fate; Pain; Destiny; Suffering; Misery


BANGLA DESH: 2. THE BLOOD IN MY EYES, by FAIZ AHMED FAIZ    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Layer by layer, the dust of bitterness
Last Line: Will be cleansed of blood forever.
Alternate Author Name(s): Faiz, Faiz Ahmad
Subject(s): Bangladesh; Blood; Eyes; Healing; Tears; Cures


BEAUTIFUL EYES, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: E'en as the wand'rer for the forest's shadow
Last Line: If thine eyes did not greet me there!
Subject(s): Beauty; Eyes


BEFORE I GOT MY EYE PUT OUT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Incautious — of the sun
Subject(s): Eyes; Vision; Sun


BEFORE MY EYES, by CH'AN CH'ENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The fragrance comes in
Last Line: Take a sip from the flower
Subject(s): Eyes; Vision; Waking; Zen Buddhism


BENHAM'S DISK: 4. COLOR BLINDED, by JANICE N. HARRINGTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hydrangea require acidic soil to change color
Last Line: We have reached paradise. O eden's black serpent!'
Subject(s): Blindness; Eyes


BEYOND POSSESSION, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Had it been you
Last Line: Your eyes and my eyes.
Subject(s): Eyes; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Sight; Male-female Relations


BLACK AND BLUE EYES, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The brilliant black eye
Last Line: Dear fanny!
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Admiration; Eyes


BLACK EYE, by NATALIE KENVIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your fist beat a know on my face
Last Line: The winter was a lovely white
Subject(s): Eyes; Violence


BLIND MAN'S BUFF, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Three wags (whom some fastidious carpers
Last Line: "out of your wages!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Blindness; Drinks & Drinking; Eyes; Visually Handicapped; Wine


CAELICA: 4, by FULKE GREVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You little stars that live in skies
Last Line: To love and never seek compassion.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, 1st Baron; Brooke, Lord
Variant Title(s): His Lady's Eyes;to Her Eyes
Subject(s): Eyes; Stars


CALL HIM HIGH SHELLEY NOW, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here lies a frigid man whom men deplore
Last Line: Call him high shelley now and praise his wake.
Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Sea; Soul; Dead, The; Ocean


CAP'N STORM-ALONG, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They are buffeting out in the bitter grey weather
Last Line: Your old cap'n storm-along's lord of us all.
Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean


CASSANDRA'S PROPHECY, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Time's frost shall touch thy temples in the morn
Last Line: With lightning from the right struck blind mine eyes.
Subject(s): Cassandra; Eyes; Hope; Prophecy & Prophets; Time; Optimism


CEREMONY OF OPENING THE MOUTH AND THE EYES, by FORREST GANDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now, for instance, in the after-storm sheen
Last Line: Finer, while I wheel toward your awakened face, the waterfall of your word
Subject(s): Eyes; Life; Mouths


CHARLES CARVILLE'S EYES, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A melancholy face charles carville had
Last Line: Might speak them. Then we heard them, every word.
Subject(s): Eyes


CLEOMENS, OR THE SPARTAN HERO: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No, no, poor suff'ring heart, no change endeavour
Last Line: Love has found out a way to live by dying.
Subject(s): Cupid; Eyes; Love; Singing & Singers; Eros; Songs


COMMON THINGS, by EUGENIA GRIESS    Poem Text                    
First Line: How lovely common things must seem to you
Last Line: Who have such lovely eyes to see them through.
Subject(s): Eyes; Sight


COMPENSATIONS, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not with a flash that rends the blue
Last Line: And ask no more in death.
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Eyes; Love; Moon; Dead, The; Nightmares


CONSORT YU, by ZHU ZHONGXIAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Strength exhausted, xiang yu lost hegemonic light in his double-pupiled eyes
Last Line: Refusing to follow the east wind into han territory
Subject(s): Eyes


CYNTHIADES: ON HER FAIR EYES, by FRANCIS KYNASTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Look not upon me with those lovely eyes
Last Line: Into thy bosom take the body too.
Subject(s): Eyes; Love


DARK EYES, by MARCEL BEYER    Poem Source                    
First Line: In some hours my eyes grow
Last Line: The first words come, there, %back with dark eyes
Subject(s): Eyes


DEAD MAN'S MORRICE, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There came a crowder to the mermaid inn
Last Line: And look in vain.
Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Forests; Ghosts; Lips; May (month); Night; Supernatural; Dead, The; Woods; Bedtime


DEFEAT, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Though you have struck me to the bloody core
Last Line: Lift up your shadow eyes to mine still wet.
Subject(s): Eyes; Hearts; Tears


DEFINITION, by ELIZABETH HAYNES SANDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A sudden closing of the eyes
Last Line: It's called by someone, passing, by another, death.
Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Faces; Silence; Dead, The


DINNER PARTY, by LAURA MINOR    Poem Source                    
First Line: I left my contacts marinating in the shot glass above the toilet
Last Line: Spelling feed me on the good tablecloth
Subject(s): Bodies; Eyes


DOROTHY, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Her eyes hold black whips
Last Line: Under the flame.
Subject(s): Beauty; Bodies; Eyes; Hair; Hands


DOVES' EYES, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are eyes that look through us
Last Line: For, behold, he hath doves' eyes!
Subject(s): Eyes


DREAMS, by AUGUSTE ANGELLIER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Often I dream your big blue eyes
Last Line: And dim with dear distress.
Subject(s): Dreams; Eyes; Nightmares


DRINK TO ME ONLY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Drink to me only with thine eyes
Last Line: I would not change for thine
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking;eyes;kisses;soul


DURING MUSIC, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O tears that well up to my eyes
Last Line: Too strange the hopes, too strange the fears.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Eyes; Life; Soul; Tears


DUST IN THE EYES, by ROBERT FROST            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If, as they say, dust thrown in my eyes
Subject(s): Dust; Eyes


DUST IN THE EYES, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If, as they say, dust thrown in my eyes
Last Line: And blind me to a standstill if it must
Subject(s): Dust; Eyes


DUST-SEALED, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I know not wherefore, but mine eyes
Last Line: Their eyes are blind, they cannot see.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Eden; Eyes; Hope; Vision; Optimism


E IS FOR EYES, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: I need no glass to help my eyes
Last Line: That time is taking away from me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Eyes


EGG-AND-DART, by ROBERT FINCH    Poem Text                    
First Line: This never-ended searching for the eyes
Last Line: Then the droll recommencement of the search.
Subject(s): Eyes; Hope; Optimism


EPIGRAM: 47, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I see my plaint with open ears
Last Line: Is that I see myself alive.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Eyes; Life; Tears


EPISTLE TO THE LADY ANNE CLIFFORD, by SAMUEL DANIEL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Unto the tender youth of those fair eyes
Last Line: Than th' ancestors' fair glory gone before.
Subject(s): Clifford, Anne. Countess Of Pembroke; Eyes; Praise; Silence; Women; Youth


EQUATION, by GUNNAR EKELOF    Poem Source                    
First Line: Only truth can explain your eyes
Last Line: And explain your rapport with destiny
Subject(s): Eyes; Love; Truth


EVEN UNTO DEATH, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To think one thought a hundred hundred ways
Last Line: These are the signs of love -- love even to death.
Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Faith; Love; Pain; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Suffering; Misery


EVES, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When life is very lonely
Last Line: You passing by!
Subject(s): Dreams; Eyes; Love; Nightmares


EXTRACT FROM A LETTER, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What matter all my looks to thee?
Last Line: I mean by night, I mean by night!
Subject(s): Eyes; Letters; Night; Sun; Bedtime


EYE, by RAFAEL ESTRADA    Poem Source                    
First Line: He was ashamed of the blinking eye that had materialized on
Last Line: The pupil of the eye, would shine like a terrestrial star
Subject(s): Eyes; Vision


EYE TEST, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The d is desperate
Last Line: We are so tired of meaning nothing.
Subject(s): Eyes; Letters; Vision


EYE TROUBLE, by EAMON GRENNAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not clear exactly what to do now to clear the eye
Subject(s): Eyes


EYES, by ANTONIO GOMEZ RESTREPO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There are eyes so full of dreams
Last Line: Stars from a lost paradise.
Subject(s): Eyes; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


EYES, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The only parts of the body the same
Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter
Subject(s): Eyes


EYES, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How eloquent are eyes
Last Line: Love, look thus again!
Subject(s): Eyes


EYES, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the heaven of her brows
Last Line: On laughter of itself afraid.
Subject(s): Eyes


EYES, by HELEN FIELD WATSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Why is it that some eyes are merely two
Last Line: Have helped me try. ..... Though they misunderstood
Subject(s): Eyes; Sight


EYES AND LIPS, by AUGUSTE ANGELLIER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our silent eyes alone interpreted
Last Line: Her lips, which breathed a word of tenderness!
Subject(s): Eyes; Lips; Love


EYES AND TEARS, by ANDREW MARVELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How wisely nature did decree
Last Line: These weeping eyes, those seeing tears.
Subject(s): Eyes; Tears


EYES ARE THE GUIDES OF LOVE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Said propertius - oculi sunt
Last Line: It isn't for me to know
Subject(s): Eyes; Propertius, Sextus (50-15 B.c.)


EYES IN ALL HEADS TO BE LOOKED OUT OF, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Formed a new beast today: eye of hawk
Last Line: Cut cut!
Subject(s): Eyes


EYES OF BLACK AND EYES OF BLUE, FR. THE VICEROY, by HARRY BACHE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One day I swear by the eyes of black
Last Line: And then if you like I will change with you.
Subject(s): Eyes


EYES, SAD EYES, WHAT WORDS THEY SPEAK!, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: The eyes, thine eyes, sad eyes?
Subject(s): Eyes; Grief


EYESERVICE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Eyeservice let me give
Last Line: Eyeservice still!
Subject(s): Eyes


FOR THE BLIND, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You will enter morning
Last Line: Your eyes will open %with delight
Subject(s): Blindness; Eyes; Vision


FOR THEM THAT DIED IN BATTLE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How blossomy must be the halls of death
Last Line: And honor's music on them like sunrise.
Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Tears; Youth; Dead, The


FORMA BONUM FRAGILE, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What a frail thing is beauty! Says baron le cras
Last Line: She dropped the eye, and broke it.
Subject(s): Anger; Beauty; Eyes


FREED FROM ANOTHER CONTEXT, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, the foreground of the other
Last Line: The other side.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Birds; Eyes; Owls; Sight; Vision; Wings


FRIENDSHIP; ON SUN-PORTRAIT OF HER HUSBAND, SENT BY A WIFE TO A FRIEND, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful eyes -- and shall I see no more
Last Line: And feel a kind of regret.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Eyes; Friendship; Love - Marital; Portraits; Singing & Singers; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Songs


GABAEL, by ADRIEN MITHOUARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lone gabael of sichem, blind from birth
Last Line: Silent, the sunset tinged with blood the skies.
Subject(s): Blindness; Eyes; Faces; God; Jesus Christ; Visually Handicapped


GOD'S EYES, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Father, what colour are god's eyes
Last Line: God's eyes change slow from shade to shade.
Subject(s): Eyes; Fathers & Daughters; God; Nature - Religious Aspects; Truth


GRAY EYES, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was april when you came
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Eyes; Love - Beginnings


HE HAS, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The high-boned taut-toned moody ink-eyes beauty
Subject(s): Eyes


HEART UNBROKEN AND THE COURAGE FREE, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is late autumn, the end of indian summer
Last Line: I look at them, they are the color of snow
Subject(s): Autumn; Eyes; Nature; Seasons


HELEN KELLER, by WITTER BYNNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What are eyes for but to see the truth she sees
Last Line: And dead folk skies.
Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel
Subject(s): Eyes; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Truth


HER BEAUTIFUL EYES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
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


HER EYES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once, long ago, a little one of mine
Last Line: The christ-like candor of those early eyes!
Subject(s): Eyes; Faces; Faith; Life; Summer; Belief; Creed


HER EYES, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: That they are brown, no man will dare to say
Last Line: Will mean the resurrection of her eyes.
Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt
Subject(s): Eyes; Heaven; Paradise


HER EYES, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To a woman I knew
Last Line: On her good name
Subject(s): Eyes


HER EYES, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To a woman I knew
Last Line: I apprehend will get some blame %on her good name
Subject(s): Eyes


HER EYES, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Up from the street and the crowds that went
Last Line: The plainer it all comes back to him.
Subject(s): Eyes; Paintings And Painters


HER EYES ARE WILD, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Her eyes are wild, her head is bare
Last Line: "and there, my babe, we'll live for aye."
Subject(s): Eyes


HER VOICE, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Her eyes have already transfixed him
Last Line: He is quiet.
Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Eyes; Voices


HOW CAN I WRITE POEMS FOR HELEN KELLER?, by JUSABRO IWAMI    Poem Text                    
First Line: I must live in a bad, bad world
Last Line: They cause fear!
Subject(s): Blindness; Eyes; Fear; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Wisdom; Visually Handicapped


HOW FAR IS IT TO THE LAND WE LEFT?, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the first day of his life
Last Line: And he won't even flinch.
Subject(s): Babies; Eyes; Rest; Tears; Infants


I'VE SEEN A DYING EYE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Twere blessed to have seen—
Subject(s): Eyes


ICE CANNOT CRY, by FLORENCE STEINBERG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tears drop / splashing the heart
Last Line: Melt.
Subject(s): Cold; Eyes; Grief; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness


IMAGES OF OUR DREAMS, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: The wooded hill slopes down even unto the
Last Line: Ah for our dreams that rise and perish evermore!
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Eyes; Dead, The; Nightmares


IMAGISTE LOVE LINES, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I love my lady with a deep purple love
Subject(s): Eyes;kisses;love


IN A VISITORS' BOOK, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My favorite kind of scenery
Last Line: From the top of the tankard.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Eyes


IN NEW YORK: 5. HOME, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have a need of silence and of stars
Last Line: And then -- the summer stars . . . I will go home.
Variant Title(s): Home
Subject(s): Eyes; Faith; Home; Life; Love; Silence; Belief; Creed


INEXPLICABLE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: To look suddenly at eyes
Last Line: Shifting havoc through my head.
Subject(s): Eyes; Gratitude; Insanity


IRIS, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am born from the womb of the cloud
Last Line: Is builded of light and air!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Eyes; Soul


IRIS ADMITS THE LIGHT THE IRIS WILL ALLOW, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A letter flew into his hand
Last Line: Stitched up her eyes
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D.
Subject(s): Eyes; Man-woman Relationships


IT LOOKS LIKE, by BRIAN SWANN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: A star in the water
Subject(s): Eyes; Fishing And Fishermen; Native Americans; Riddles


JUDGMENT, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When they removed the bandages
Last Line: On them -- for what they couldn't say -- they wept.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Blindness; Cold; Eyes; Judgments; Solitude; Visually Handicapped; Loneliness


JUDITH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O her eyes are amber-fine--
Last Line: Sweet as heated honey is.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Eyes; Faces; Kisses


LAST ACT, by CEES NOOTEBOOM    Poem Source                    
First Line: A hundred times you wanted to think about the eye
Last Line: The sect of creation as creator %existing through sight
Subject(s): Creation; Eyes; Life; Light


LE JET D'EAU, by ANTHONY HECHT    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My dear, your lids are weary
Subject(s): Eyes; Tears


LE JET D'EAU, by ANTHONY HECHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My dear, your lids are weary
Last Line: Falls like an opulent glistening %of tears
Subject(s): Eyes; Tears


LET THE EYE, by ELENI SIKELIANOS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of the earth
Subject(s): Eyes


LIGHT AND SHADE, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Light! Emblem of all good and joy
Last Line: The lord our everlasting light.
Subject(s): Eyes; Lamps; Light; Sun; Vision


LIGHT VERSE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At night the gas lamps light our street
Last Line: Those lovely double burners!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Beauty; Eyes


LIPS AND EYES, by THOMAS CAREW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In celia's face a question did arise
Last Line: Weeping or smiling pearls, to celia's face.
Subject(s): Eyes; Faces; Lips


LITOST, by DEBORAH O'HARRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The woman has no eyebrows
Last Line: Of a lost nation, keening of an ageless orphan
Subject(s): Czechoslovakia; Eyes; Injustice; Nations


LOOKS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: What knowledge do my ears provide
Last Line: Stirs to her treachery.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Books; Eyes; Knowledge; Learning; Sight; Reading


LOST, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He ought to be home, said the old man, without there's / something amiss
Last Line: Was an angel smile of gladness -- she had found her boy at last.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Eyes; Hope; Smiles; Optimism


LOVE THE TEACHER AND INSPIRER, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I dragged my life along with sullen sighs
Last Line: Tis you that do it, you that work in me.
Subject(s): Eyes; Life; Love; Teaching & Teachers


LOVE'S SOLICITUDE, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where art thou at this moment, love? - what doing
Last Line: Light of mine eyes, blood of my veins, my love.
Subject(s): Beauty; Eyes; Hearts; Love; Pain; Suffering; Misery


LUBBERLU, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Green were her eyes, - yellow were her eyes
Last Line: Over the hills and away.
Subject(s): Bible; Candles; Churches; Eyes; Jesus Christ; Lips; Cathedrals


LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 4, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When gazing on thy beauteous eyes
Last Line: I begin weeping bitterly.
Subject(s): Eyes; Kisses; Love


LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 5, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thy face, so lovely and serene
Last Line: That from thine eyes is wont to pour.
Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Faces; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 61, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All night in vision behold I thee
Last Line: And the word is forgotten completely.
Subject(s): Eyes; Grief; Night; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime


LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 69, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Night lay upon mine eyelids
Last Line: And lo! -- from sleep I woke.
Subject(s): Dreams; Eyes; Graves; Hair; Night; Nightmares; Tombs; Tombstones; Bedtime


MADRIGAL, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: April eyes, april eyes / alight with laughter
Last Line: Love is a rover.
Subject(s): April; Eyes; Laughter; Love; Pain; Pleasure; Suffering; Misery


MARCELINO VALDES, by RICARDO PAU-LLOSA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Only the eye can detect a voice
Last Line: That idiot but proficient god
Subject(s): Eyes


MARIE, ARISE!', by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Marie, arise, my indolent sweet saint!
Last Line: A hundred times, to teach you early rising!
Subject(s): Beauty; Eyes; Kisses; Love


MARY'S EYES, by HERBERT KAUFMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where did mary get her eyes?
Last Line: Then she made the eyes of you.
Subject(s): Eyes


MELODRAMA BEFORE LUNCH, by GARY SOTO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How I love mexican women with mascara
Last Line: The exhaust of self-pity ever again
Subject(s): Eyes; Mexico; Women


MEMORIES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As his yarn a seaman spins
Last Line: O'er time's sea of songs and sins.
Subject(s): Eyes; Life; Memory; Past; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Time; Seamen; Sails; Ocean


MEXICAN NURSERY RHYME: 5, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: These little eyes / as blue as skies
Last Line: Te-ren-ten-ten!
Subject(s): Eyes


MINE EYES WERE SWIFT TO KNOW THEE, AND MY HEART, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Read kindness in our eyes and closed the match
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Eyes; Love – Beginnings; Kindness


MONOCLES, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Reducing the universe
Last Line: I prefer to try the other.
Subject(s): Eyes; God; Universe


MOTHERS' EYES, by DIANA KEARNY POWELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Immortal blue, so gentle, holy, true
Last Line: The blue, blue tenderness of mother eyes.
Subject(s): Eyes; Mothers


MOUNTAIN MOMENT, by ALEXANDER KINMAN LAING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out across the morning
Last Line: Birches in the dawn!
Subject(s): Birch Trees; Eyes; Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MY BIRDEEN, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On bonnie birdeen
Last Line: My passion, my pain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Children; Death; Eyes; Loss; Love; Pain; Passion; Childhood; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery


MY BLINDNESS, by HERMAN J. D. CARTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh blackened knight, murderer of my day
Last Line: Without a cause, until I'm claimed by death?
Subject(s): Black (color); Blindness; Death; Eyes; Visually Handicapped; Dead, The


MY EYES ARE YOUNG, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Soft spake I to age at his dusk of day
Last Line: When my youth with years had flown.
Subject(s): Adolescence; Eyes; Teen Agers


MY EYES IN THE MIRROR, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: At the eyes I see with
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Eyes; Vision


MY RECTOR, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I never see my rector's eyes
Last Line: "and, when he preaches, mine"
Subject(s): Eyes


MY SWEETHEART'S EYES, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beautiful, laughing eyes of brown
Last Line: Ever my own eternally.
Subject(s): Eyes


NAKED EYE, by JOHN DUFFRESNE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The least touchable of all things
Last Line: The way one mirror rushes into another
Subject(s): Eyes; Self


NIGHT HAS A THOUSAND EYES': 8, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wrapped candies from cleveland %the acclaim of east st. Louis
Last Line: As we don't say, of the night %as we don't say of the night
Subject(s): Eyes; Night


NIGHT OFF GALLIPOLI: 4. VOICE OF A BRETON FISHERMAN, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Douarnenez! Douarnenez!
Last Line: Break on mine eyes with the breaking day!
Subject(s): Eyes; Fish & Fishing; Home; Sea; Towns; Ocean


NOW THAT I'M OLDER I PERFECTLY, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And the whale's eye that blinked
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Animals; Eyes; Nature


ODE, by ANACREON    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thy harp may sing of troy's alarms
Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea
Subject(s): Eyes; Drinks & Drinking; Wine


OH, MY LOVE HAS AN EYE OF THE SOFTEST BLUE, by CHARLES WOLFE                        Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Eyes; Beauty


OH, TURN FROM ME THOSE RADIANT EYES, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The wounds thine eyes are dealing!
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac
Subject(s): Eyes; Temptation


ON A CHILD'S EYES, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How loveable all infant beauties are!
Last Line: That shall not blench when jesus takes his throne!
Subject(s): Babies; Eyes; Infants


ON A MOUNTAIN TOP, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On this high altar, fringed with ferns
Last Line: His glory fills the air.
Subject(s): Angels; Eden; Evil; Eyes; Flowers; Mountains; Stars; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ON A WHITE MUSLIN DRESS IN A MODISTE'S WINDOW, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Demure white frock which I espy
Last Line: Deem your white frock!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Eyes


ON LOOKING INTO THE EYES OF A DEMON LOVE, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here are two pupils
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Eyes


ON MEETING AFTER, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Her eyes are haunted, eyes that were
Last Line: Her haunted eyes?
Subject(s): Eyes


ON THE EYES OF MISS A - H -, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Anne's eye is liken'd to the sun
Last Line: Her sun displays perpetual summer.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Eyes


ON THE METAMORPHOSES BROUGHT ABOUT BY EMOTION: REBELLION OF THE EYES, by ANDREI VOZNESENSKY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the third month her laughter sounds strained
Last Line: I have paid for them with my life
Alternate Author Name(s): Voznesenskii, Andrei
Subject(s): Eyes


ONE WITNESS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The secretary was a presence grim
Last Line: His little dog watched for him at the gate
Subject(s): Animals;dogs;eyes;friendship;presence


ONE-EYED MAN MUST BE FEARFUL, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of being taken for a birdhouse
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Eyes; Nature


ONLY ONE EYE, by LILLIAN E. CURTIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh! She was a lovely girl
Last Line: See that you not be rivaled, %by the girl with only one eye
Subject(s): Eyes


ORDER, by CEES NOOTEBOOM    Poem Source                    
First Line: The gods are mortal
Last Line: The end without end
Subject(s): Eyes; Immortality; Life; Light


OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA, by SUSAN GRAFELD LONG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The whites of my eyes are china blue
Last Line: And brittle bones, of what is lost to depth, then, %almost always, found and kept
Subject(s): Children; Eyes; Memory


OZARK ODES: REMEDY, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sty sty leave my eye
Last Line: Go to the next feller passing by
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D.
Subject(s): Eyes; Healing


PEACE, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Give me the pulse of the tide again
Last Line: And a broken soul to save.
Subject(s): Eyes; Hearts; Love; Peace; Singing & Singers; Soul


PERSEID SHOWER, by BERT ALMON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The whole family reclines in wicker chairs on the patio, eyes up for the
Last Line: Bright lights are still streaking the sky's black negative
Subject(s): Eyes; Light; Vision


PHILOMELA: SONNET (ANSWER), by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nature foreeseing how men would devise
Last Line: No more but one, and heart will never lose him.
Variant Title(s): Philomela: Woman's Eyes; Answer
Subject(s): Eyes; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Women; Male-female Relations


PHILOMELA: WOMAN'S EYES; A QUESTION, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On women nature did bestow two eyes
Last Line: Allow of two, and prove not nature vain.
Subject(s): Beauty; Eyes; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Women


POEMS ON THE DEATH OF SIR HORATIO PALLAVICINO: TO HER LADISHIP, by JOSEPH HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If those salt showers that your sad eyes haue shed
Last Line: That your so loued mate is gone before.
Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Grief; Loss; Rain; Reason; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


PULSE OF MY HEART, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Are these your eyes, isla
Last Line: Pulse of my heart!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Children; Death; Eyes; Grief; Legacies; Loss; Love; Parents; Childhood; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Parenthood


QUIET EYES, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The boys come home, come home from war
Last Line: Unharmed, unflawed, unhurt.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Eyes; Innocence; Soldiers; Soul; War; World War I; First World War


REMEMBERED SCENES, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the wood my holy angel-child
Last Line: Love weaves my web of life, both warp and woof.
Subject(s): Eyes; Flowers; Forests; Life; Woods


REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE, NOT TO BE FOUND IN ANY BOOKS, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Between nose and eyes a strange contest arose
Last Line: Shut.
Variant Title(s): A Law Case;the Nose And The Eyes
Subject(s): Eyes; Noses


REQUIEM, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where, oh where, should love be laid?
Last Line: Human hearts are made.
Subject(s): Eyes; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Night; Sea; Wind; Bedtime; Ocean


RETURN, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The body of her eyes
Last Line: That brings you the sea.
Subject(s): Bodies; Eyes; Sea; Ocean


ROSAMUND, SELS., by HANS FAVEREY    Poem Source                    
First Line: To stare without desire, with no
Last Line: Under my very eyes, under your very eyes
Subject(s): Eyes; Stars


SAD MADRIGAL, SELECTION, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What care I that you be wise?
Last Line: With the storm the bloom appears.
Subject(s): Eyes; Grief; Storms; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness


SERENADE, by JEAN FRANCOIS VICTOR AICARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: My marguerite, I play
Last Line: In this wise sang miette.
Subject(s): Eyes; Faces; Kisses; Love; Singing & Singers; Songs


SHUT-EYE, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He dreams he's shooting himself in the eye his left eye the
Subject(s): Dreams; Suicide; Eyes; Nightmares


SISTER MARY APPASSIONATE TO THE OPTOMETRY CLASS: DOCTRINES OF THE EYE, by DAVID CITINO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The master craftsman shapes each pair of eyes
Last Line: And for the briefest shining moment you've just been born
Subject(s): Eyes


SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES, by TERRY STOKES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your heart. You have a hard time telling me
Last Line: That never blossoms, that never ends
Subject(s): Eyes; Relationships; Smoke


SOFT BLACK EYES, by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Soft black eyes, all pensive, tender
Last Line: Sympathy will give me rest.
Subject(s): Eyes


SOME EYES CONDEMN, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some eyes condemn the earth they gaze upon
Last Line: Dumb: for they flamed and it was me they burned.
Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward
Subject(s): Eyes


SONG OF MARGARET, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ay, I saw her, we have met
Last Line: Margaret, margaret.
Subject(s): Eyes; Hearts; Silence; Singing & Singers; Songs


SONG: 21, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Take heed betime lest ye be spied
Last Line: Therefore take heed!
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Eyes; Fools; Love; Idiots


SONG: 39, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your looks so often cast
Last Line: To stop a thing so clear.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Eyes; Hearts; Love


SONG: 67, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Grudge on who list, this is my lot
Last Line: No thing to want if it were not.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Eyes; Faith; Hearts; Love; Belief; Creed


SONG: 8, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When first mine eyes did view and mark
Last Line: Or else thy heart had been as mine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Eyes; Hearts; Life


SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 98, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Do you know the pull of the wind on the sea?
Last Line: Your wonderful eyes -- forever to me.
Subject(s): Eyes


SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 22, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Since by ill fate I'm forced away
Last Line: Behold your picture in my heart.
Subject(s): Absence; Charm; Eyes; Fate; Hearts; Love; Separation; Isolation; Destiny


SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 3, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Strephonetta, why d'ye fly me
Last Line: Who before the chaplain wooed.
Subject(s): Cruelty; Eyes; Love - Complaints


SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 9, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Is it, o love, thy want of eyes
Last Line: And double glory thine.
Subject(s): Despair; Eyes; Fates (mythology); Happiness; Hearts; Love; Joy; Delight


SONNET (WRITTEN IN ANSWER TO A SONNET ENDING THUS: -), by JOHN KEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Blue! 'tis the life of heaven, - the domain
Last Line: When in an eye thou art alive with fate!
Variant Title(s): "blue Eyes (answer To A Sonnet Ending Thus: -);""blue! 'tis The Life Of Heaven, - The Domain"";
Subject(s): Admiration; Eyes


SONNET: 130, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun
Last Line: As any she belied with false compare.
Variant Title(s): "my Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like The Sun"";common Sense;shakespeare Refuses To Praise His Mistress;
Subject(s): Beauty; Eyes; Love


SONNET: 15, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some fowls there be that have so perfect sight
Last Line: Yet do I know I run into the glede.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 24
Subject(s): Eyes; Faces


SONNET: 20, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Avising the bright beams of these fair eyes
Last Line: Of such a root cometh fruit fruitless.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 29
Subject(s): Eyes; Hearts; Love


SONNET: 25, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lively sparks that issue from those eyes
Last Line: "of deadly ""nay"" hear I the fearful thunder."
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 47
Subject(s): Eyes; Hearts; Pain; Suffering; Misery


SONNET: 6, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That girls' clear eyes utterly concealed all
Last Line: Marched past, hiding the 'seventeen thirty-nine'
Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward
Subject(s): Eyes


SONNETS: 8. BELOVED EYES, by NEWMAN HOWARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dearest, beneath your lashes' shadow bides
Last Line: With wings of pity once more wash them clean.
Subject(s): Beauty; Doves; Eyes; Love


SPEAKING EYES, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There are some faces, rarely met
Last Line: What thou art speaking with thine eyes!
Subject(s): Eyes; Talk


SPRING FANTASIES: 4. HORN AND VIOLIN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the autumn, in the weather
Last Line: But the violin for spring.
Subject(s): Autumn; Eyes; Love; Seasons; Soul; Spring; Fall


STAR OF THE PENSIVE! MELANCHOLY STAR, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: We think that eyes beloved those beauties share!
Subject(s): Stars; Eyes


STARLIGHT, by PLATO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With two bright eyes, my star, my love
Last Line: With a million eyes to look on thee.
Subject(s): Eyes; Love; Stars


SUNLIGHT AND SEA, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Give me the sunlight and the sea
Last Line: And who shall take my heaven from me?
Subject(s): Breath; Death; Eyes; Faces; Heaven; Life; Sea; Singing & Singers; Spring; Sun; Dead, The; Paradise; Ocean


SUPPOSE, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How dreary would the meadows be
Last Line: That you have your ears and eyes.
Subject(s): Contenment; Eyes; Ears


THE ANCIENT CHANCE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Battle and fog and dream
Last Line: And the ancient chance is sweet!
Subject(s): Birth; Blindness; Death; Dreams; Eyes; Hearts; Child Birth; Midwifery; Visually Handicapped; Dead, The; Nightmares


THE BLIND LADY, by MAX JACOB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The blind lady with bloodshot eyes chooses her expressions
Last Line: So she'll laugh and she'll laugh and then she'll bellow.
Subject(s): Blindness; Eyes; Pity; Visually Handicapped


THE CEREMONY OF OPENING THE MOUTH AND THE EYES, by FORREST GANDER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now, for instance, in the after-storm sheen
Subject(s): Eyes; Life; Mouths


THE COMPANIONS, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How few are they that voyage through the night
Last Line: By hosts of unknown men.
Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Eyes; Flowers; Soul; Spring; Nightmares


THE COURTIER'S RETURN, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Good morn, my heart, good morn, my life's one end
Last Line: My goddess sweet, my true-love.
Subject(s): Eyes; Life; Light; Love


THE DARK HOUSE, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where a faint light shines alone
Last Line: Will be living, having died.
Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Life; Dead, The


THE EYE, by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The eye I look out of
Subject(s): Eyes


THE EYE, by MADELINE DEFREES    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lodged in a bony orbit in the skull, the eye
Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline
Subject(s): Eyes


THE EYE, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is not true that eyes
Last Line: Hill pastures and reluming the green-caved wood.
Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Eyes; Light; Eve


THE EYE, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One morning in st. Thomas, when I tried
Last Line: But giver of due regard
Subject(s): Eyes


THE EYE (1), by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Make me a heaven; and make me there
Last Line: But onely my corinna's eye?
Subject(s): Eyes


THE EYE (2), by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A wanton and lascivious eye
Last Line: Betrayes the hearts adulterie.
Subject(s): Eyes


THE EYE-MOTE, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Blameless as daylight I stood looking
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Nostalgia; Eyes


THE EYES, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis a known principle in war
Last Line: The eies be first, that conquer'd are.
Subject(s): Eyes


THE EYES BEFORE THE EARES, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We credit most our sight; one eye doth please
Last Line: Our trust farre more then ten eare-witnesses.
Subject(s): Eyes


THE EYES OF LINCOLN, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sad eyes, that were patient and tender
Last Line: From the luminous slopes of the stars.
Subject(s): Eyes; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


THE EYES OF LOVE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The doctors came, they looked, they said
Last Line: The eyes of love, they know, they know.
Subject(s): Eyes; Life; Love; Physicians; Sickness; Doctors; Illness


THE GAME, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis played with eyes; one uttered word
Last Line: My own to play again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding
Subject(s): Eyes; Games; Play; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements


THE GLAD EYE, by PAUL MULDOON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bored by ascham and zeno
Subject(s): Eyes; Arrows


THE HEART UNBROKEN AND THE COURAGE FREE, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is late autumn, the end of indian summer
Last Line: I look at them, they are the color of snow
Subject(s): Autumn; Eyes; Nature; Seasons; Fall


THE LANGUAGE OF THE EYES, by EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Those eyes, those eyes, how full of heaven they are
Last Line: Feelings are words for eyes!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bulwer, Edward; Lytton Of Knebworth, 1st Baron; Lytton, Edward George Earle Bulwer, Lord
Subject(s): Eyes


THE LAST MAN: CONCEALED JOY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Just now a beam of joy hung on his eye-lash
Last Line: Into a darkening hole.
Subject(s): Eyes; Happiness; Joy; Delight


THE LITTLE WOMAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My little woman, of you I sing
Last Line: So closely here in mine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Eyes; Love; Singing & Singers; Stars; Women


THE LOOK, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Strephon kissed me in the spring
Last Line: Haunts me night and day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Desire; Eyes; Flirtation; Kisses; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Sight; Vision; Male-female Relations


THE MESSAGE, by JOHN DONNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Send home my [long] strayed eyes to me
Last Line: Or prove as false as thou art now.
Subject(s): Deception; Eyes; Love - Complaints; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


THE MODERN SAINT, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No monkish garb he wears, no beads he tells
Last Line: And ministers to men with all his might.
Subject(s): Earth; Eyes; Faces; Hearts; Saints; World


THE NIGHT OF THE LION, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Their day was at twelve of the night
Last Line: His freedom shall not end.
Subject(s): Admirals; Animals; Eyes; Freedom; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Lions; Night; Liberty; British Empire; England - Empire; Bedtime


THE OLD COUPLE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A pair of oldsters, humble folk, come straying
Last Line: Behold them -- king and queen!
Subject(s): Birds; Courts & Courtiers; Eyes; Faith; Flowers; Love; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Belief; Creed


THE OLD FOOL IN THE WOOD, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If I could whisper you all I know
Last Line: "that's what you'd say."
Subject(s): Eyes; Fools; Forests; Grief; Hearts; Idiots; Woods; Sorrow; Sadness


THE POETRY OF EYES, by MADELINE DEFREES    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In a dark time, roethke writes
Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline
Subject(s): Eyes


THE QUIET EYE, by ELIZA COOK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The orb I like is not the one
Last Line: Hath its deep fountain in the heart.
Subject(s): Eyes


THE SAME SUBJECT, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When that your sail bent to the ocean-swell
Last Line: And left us only longing and regret.
Subject(s): Beauty; Eyes; Fortune; Lips; Muses; Nature; Sailing & Sailors


THE SUMMER WOMAN, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O wild bee humming in the gorse
Last Line: Wild bees, wild bees, come back again!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Eyes; Summer; Tears; Voices; Women


THE SYMPHONY, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wonder in happy eyes
Last Line: And find new life and deeper wonder there.
Subject(s): Beauty; Eyes; Happiness; Singing & Singers; Youth; Joy; Delight


THE THOUGHT OF DEATH, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Since when her faithful eyes, to which I yield
Last Line: Whose thought brings comfort to my heart again.
Subject(s): Comfort; Death; Eyes; Flowers; Hearts; Dead, The


THE TWIN-SOUL, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the dead of the night a spirit came
Last Line: O spirit-enchantress, o demon-will!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Night; Soul; Dead, The; Bedtime


THE WAYS OF LOVE, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Love's infidel / whom I adore
Last Line: Till you loved in sooth!
Subject(s): Eyes; Hate; Hearts; Love


THE WISH FOR EYES, by ANNIE FINCH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On solid hills through liquid dusk,
Subject(s): Eyes


THE WOOD, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a knight once rode from out the sun
Last Line: Or came unto the marsh, I never knew.
Subject(s): Dreams; Eyes; Forests; Knights & Knighthood; Nightmares; Woods


THINE EYES IN MINE EYES, by HERBERT TRENCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: So thou and I, friend
Subject(s): Friendship; Eyes


THREE AM, by RUTH STONE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You wake in the night. I know you do
Last Line: The drawn blinds; the surface of indifference.
Subject(s): Eyes; Insomnia; Light; Sleeplessness


THROUGH A GLASS EYE, LIGHTLY, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the laboratory waiting room
Last Line: In the empty eye.
Subject(s): Children; Eyes; Vanity; Women; Women's Rights; Childhood; Feminism


THROUGH DIM EYES, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is it the world, or my eyes, that are sadder?
Last Line: Like a grand amen to a minor song.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Stars; Summer; Sun; Dead, The


TO 0---, OF HER DARK EYES, by ALICE MEYNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Across what calm of tropic seas
Last Line: New-made thy errand to my heart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina
Subject(s): Eyes


TO A LADY WEEPING, by WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O now the certain cause I know
Last Line: This from your cheeks, that from your eyes.
Subject(s): Eyes; Grief; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness


TO A PORTRAIT, by LALIA MITCHELL THORNTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Look down upon me from your oaken frame
Last Line: I've kindled flax, and cannot stop the fire.
Subject(s): Eyes; Portraits; Secrets


TO AN ASTRONOMER, by ANNE CHARLOTTE LYNCH BOTTA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon the professor we'll waste not a glance
Last Line: And ogle at leisure diana and venus.
Subject(s): Astronomy & Astronomers; Eyes


TO AN UNNAMED LADY, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: When there are others by, in vain I dream
Last Line: For here th' eternal mysteries abide!
Subject(s): Eyes; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Secrets; Male-female Relations


TO C. P., by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Her spirit's loveliness was such
Last Line: That now are grey with tears for me.
Subject(s): Bodies; Eyes; Tears


TO DELIA: 30 (3), by SAMUEL DANIEL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oft do I muse whether my delia's eyes
Last Line: Your sweet aspect on him that honors you.
Subject(s): Eyes; Honor


TO DELIA: 50, by SAMUEL DANIEL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lo, here the impost of a faith unfeigning
Last Line: I say no more, I fear I said too much.
Variant Title(s): The Trophies
Subject(s): Eyes; Hope; Love; Optimism


TO EXPLAIN THE EYE, by GUY BENNETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The stratum of anomaly
Last Line: An eye already seen
Subject(s): Eyes; Sleep


TO HELEN KELLER, by JOHN VARNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Her eyes, miniature mirrors
Last Line: Her hands touch hands!
Subject(s): Eyes; Flowers; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Love


TO HER EYES, by EDWARD HERBERT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Black eyes if you seem dark
Last Line: Through black, cannot but be divine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord
Subject(s): Eyes


TO HER SWEET EYES, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet eyes, sweet eyes, that now be in the dust
Last Line: And it was fair because, because of you!
Subject(s): Eyes


TO HIS BROWN-EYED MISTRESS, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If sometimes, in a random phrase
Last Line: It was of yours that I was thinking!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Eyes


TO L.C.P., by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From the slow-moving shadows on the grass
Last Line: From the sad eyes of dark mnemosyne.
Subject(s): Dreams; Eyes; Heaven; Life; Nature; Youth; Nightmares; Paradise


TO LALLA, READING MY VERSES TOPSY-TURVY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Darling little cousin, / with yout thoughtful look
Last Line: Though I know the most.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Books; Eyes; Reading


TO LUCREZIA, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pause we within the sunset, love
Last Line: This barrier -- thy loveliness!
Subject(s): Eyes; Love; Time; Youth


TO M -, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! Did those eyes, instead of fire
Last Line: Would twinkle dimly through their sphere.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Eyes


TO MARGARET'S EYE, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh! I have seen the blush of morn
Last Line: Was dim near that in margaret's eye.
Subject(s): Eyes


TO QUINTIUS, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Quintius, if you'll endear catullus' eyes
Last Line: Or what he dearer than his eyes doth prize.
Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius
Subject(s): Eyes


TRAGEDIES: 4, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS    Poem Text                    
First Line: And I was a full-leaved, full-bough'd tree
Last Line: Tranquil, and trembling, and deep in the night.
Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri
Subject(s): Eyes; Grief; Moon; Night; Trees; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime


TWIN BEDS, by FLORENCE M. KEELER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now I can twist and turn and scratch my knees
Last Line: I'm froze!
Subject(s): Eyes


UPON MISTRESSE SUSANNA SOUTHWELL, HER EYES, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cleere are her eyes
Last Line: Like an intelligence.
Subject(s): Eyes


VISION, by ETHEL VEVA KING    Poem Text                    
First Line: You see a woman in velvet and satin
Last Line: And ever so slyly I try to hide mine.
Subject(s): Eyes; Vision; Youth


VISTAS OF LABOR: 1. THE STEAMSHIP STOKER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweat-drenched, and blinded by the heat, he reels
Last Line: The seeming dead grow light and labor-strong!
Subject(s): Eyes; Heaven; Labor & Laborers; Soul; Paradise; Work; Workers


WATCHING BOXES, by MATT GIULIANO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I wish I could %watch this world
Last Line: Trust your mind's camera,' %and he drifts past my ear
Subject(s): Cities; Earth; Eyes


WATER NIGHT, by OCTAVIO PAZ    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Night with the eyes of a horse that trembles
Last Line: Night brings its wetness to beaches in your soul
Subject(s): Eyes; Silence; Solitude


WHAT HAPPENS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When thy hand touches mine, through all the mesh
Last Line: In heart and brain and spirit makes thee mine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Eyes; Hands; Hearts; Soul


WHEN THEY REQUIRE GARDENS ...., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When they require gardens in their lives
Last Line: Whose dancers, mimes and clowns with moons conspire.
Subject(s): Eyes; Gardens & Gardening


WHY SHOULD I STRIVE TO EXPRESS IT?, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Not with her eyes!
Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic
Subject(s): Eyes; Beauty


WITH ONE EYE OPEN, by TIMOTHY LIU    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A meltdown of pictorial signs
Last Line: What you see is what you see.'
Subject(s): Eyes; Sight


WORDSWORTH AT GRASMERE, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These hills and waters fostered you
Last Line: Its kingdom in the thought of man.
Subject(s): Eyes; Mountains; Time; Water; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


YOUR EYES, by KEN HUGHES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Two temples of beauty are
Last Line: Lurk in those pools—your eyes.
Subject(s): Eyes; Grief; Soul; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness


YOUR EYES, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And all my hopes
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): Eyes


YOUR EYES, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In those days when we were
Last Line: Patna - they pierce me with love
Subject(s): Eyes


YOUR EYES, by PEARL A. WILCOX    Poem Text                    
First Line: If skies are grey or skies are blue
Last Line: In your eyes.
Subject(s): Emotions; Eyes; Vision