"Brownish color and black eyes are more closely related to the sublime, blue eyes and blond color to the beautiful."

"Sweet poets of the gentle antique line, That made the hue of beauty all eterne, And gave earth’s melodies a silver tu…"

"Fill high the bowl with Samian wine! Our virgins dance beneath the shade— I see their glorious black eyes shine; ..."

"Although her eyes be not of blue, Nor fair her locks, like English lasses, How far its own expressive hue The languid…"

"I turning saw, throned on a flowery rise, One sitting on a crimson scarf unroll’d; A queen, with swarthy cheeks and b…"

"The Musmee has brown velvet eyes Curtain’d with satin, sleepily; You wonder if those lids would rise The newest, stra…"

"O sweet brown hat, brown hair, brown eyes, Down-dropp’d brown eyes, so tender!"

"O dark brown eyes! O tangles of dark hair!"

"‘Eyes so black they draw one trembling near, Brown eyes, caverns flooded with a tear, Cloudless eyes, blue eyes so wi…"

"And how she’d open her green eyes, As if in some immense surprise,"