Eyes

"Tell me, eyes, what 'tis ye're seeking; For ye're saying something sweet, Fit the ravish'd ear to greet. Eloquently, softly speaking."

"Within her tender eye The heaven of April, with its changing light."

"The love light in her eye."

"Ils sont si transparents qu'ils laissent voir votre ame."

"Dark eyes—eternal soul of pride! Deep life in all that's true! * * * * Away, away to other skies! Away o'er seas and sands! Such eyes as those were never made To shine in other lands."

"O lovely eyes of azure, Clear as the waters of a brook that run Limpid and laughing in the summer sun!"

"When you look into eyes, forget about romance, creation, and the windows into the soul. With their molecules, genes, and tissues derived from microbes, jellyfish, worms, and flies, you see an entire menagerie."

"Oculi, tanquam, speculatores, altissimum locum obtinent."

"My life lies in those eyes which have me slain."

"To sun myself in Huncamunca's eyes."

"Her eyes the glow-worme lend thee, The shooting starres attend thee; And the elves also, Whose little eyes glow Like the sparks of fire, befriend thee."

"Thine eye was on the censer, And not the hand that bore it."

"As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you."

"I dislike an eye that twinkles like a star. Those only are beautiful which, like the planets, have a steady, lambent light,—are luminous, but not sparkling."

"Black brows they say Become some women best, so that there be not Too much hair there, but in a semicircle Or a half-moon made with a pen."

"Whether you want, to break free or connect, it's your choice. But with great courage, I locked my eyes with yours."

"Neo: Why do my eyes hurt?"

"There are eyes half defiant, Half meek and compliant; Black eyes, with a wondrous, witching charm To bring us good or to work us harm."

"Eyes, that displaces The neighbor diamond, and out-faces That sun-shine by their own sweet graces."

"And pictures in our eyes to get Was all our propagation."

"A suppressed resolve will betray itself in the eyes."

"Scitum est inter cæcos luscum requare posse."

"Die blauen Veilchen der Aeugelein."

"The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye."

"We credit most our sight; one eye doth please Our trust farre more than ten eare-witnesses."

"It is an active flame that flies First to the babies in the eyes."

"I have neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak but as the constitution is pleased to direct me, whose servant I am."

"Der Blick des Forschers fand Nicht selten mehr, als er zu finden wünschte."

"And thy deep eyes, amid the gloom, Shine like jewels in a shroud."

"The flash of his keen, black eyes Forerunning the thunder."

"Her two blue windows faintly she up-heaveth, Like the fair sun, when in his fresh array He cheers the morn, and all the earth relieveth; And as the bright sun glorifies the sky, So is her face illumin'd with her eye."

"But hers, which through the crystal tears gave light, Shone like the moon in water seen by night."

"I don't know why, those tear-filled eyes felt very familiar to me."

"I can read and see the words that you have confined behind the wall of your lips in the expression on your face and in the gaze of your eyes."

"The sight of you is good for sore eyes."

"Her eyes are homes of silent prayer."

"Eyes of gentianellas azure, Staring, winking at the skies."

"Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen. Their lashes are the herbs that look On their young figures in the brook."

"My eyes make pictures, when they are shut."

"In the twinkling of an eye."

"He kept him as the apple of his eye."

"With affection beaming in one eye and calculation shining out of the other."

"These lovely lamps, these windows of the soul."

"The love light in your eye."

"An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance with joy."

"Eyes are bold as lions,—roving, running, leaping, here and there, far and near. They speak all languages. They wait for no introduction; they are no Englishmen; ask no leave of age or rank; they respect neither poverty nor riches, neither learning nor power, nor virtue, nor sex, but intrude, and come again, and go through and through you in a moment of time. What inundation of life and thought is discharged from one soul into another through them!"

"On woman Nature did bestow two eyes, Like Hemian's bright lamps, in matchless beauty shining, Whose beams do soonest captivate the wise And wary heads, made rare by art's refining."

"Wenn ich in deine Augen seh' So schwindet all' mein Leid und Weh."

"I everywhere am thinking Of thy blue eyes' sweet smile; A sea of blue thoughts is spreading Over my heart the while."

"Since your eyes are so sharpe, that you cannot onely looke through a milstone, but cleane through the minde."