TWO idle eyes, 'neath lashes fine, Wander about with sly design In service-time, and make me feel A strange enchantment o'er me steal, As tho' they cast some secret sign. The meaning I would fain divine; I long to worship at this shrine, Where silken lashes will reveal Two idol eyes. Like sunny skies are they that shine, And shed their softest beams benign On me, who with a suppliant's zeal Would eagerly before them kneel, To idolize. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO MARY CHURCH TERRELL - LECTURER by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON FLUTE-PRIEST SONG FOR RAIN; CEREMONIAL AT THE SUN SPRING by AMY LOWELL OF JACOPO DEL SELLAIO by EZRA POUND COLD HANDS WARM HEART by KAREN SWENSON THE IDAHO EGG WOMAN by KAREN SWENSON |