"The sunshine of thine eyes, (O still celestial beam!) Whatever it touches it fills With the life of its lambent gleam. The sunshine of thine eyes, Oh, let it fall on me! Though I be but a mote of the air, I could turn to gold for thee."
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Novelists from the United StatesPoets from the United States19th-century poets from the United StatesPeople from Hawaii
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"The Sunshine of thine Eyes" in Dreams and Days (1892).
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George Parsons Lathrop
George Parsons Lathrop (25 August 1851 – 19 April 1898) was a poet, novelist and brother of Francis Lathrop.
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