250 EYES-FEATURES - LIPS, &c. 4. Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects: As extreme hatred; and too violent rigour Not to the sun, for they do shine by night; Nor to the fire, for they consume not ever :- Whose light doth lighten all things here we see. 2. And, as the bright sun glorifies the sky, So is her face illumin'd by her eye. 3. Her eyes, in heaven, SPENSER'S Sonnets. SHAKSPEARE. Would through the airy region stream so bright, SHAKSPEARE. 4. Her eyes, like marygold, had sheathed their light, 5. From woman's eyes this doctrine I derive: SHAKSPEARE. SHAKSPEARE. 6. Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eyes. 7. Soft as the down, that swells the cygnet's nest. 8. Her tresses, loose behind, SHAKSPEARE. Play on her neck, and wanton in the wind; 9. In those sunk eyes the grief of years I trace, SHENSTONE. GAY'S Dione. TICKELL. 10. In one soft look what language lies! DIBDIN. 11. Her eyes outshine the radiant beams That gild the passing shower, And glitter o'er the crystal streams, And sweetly tempt to kiss them! 12. By your eyes of heavenly blue, Your cheeks, where rose and lily blend, BURNS. The Padlock-A Farce. 13. Which melted in love, and which kindled in war. 14. From the glance of her eye Shun danger and fly, For fatal's the glance of Kate Kearney. CAMPBELL. MISS OWENSON. 15. With sweetness and beauty thy daughters arise, With rose-blooming cheeks, and love-languishing eyes. 252 EYES-FEATURES-LIPS, &c. 16. Down her white neck, long, floating auburn curls, The least of which would set ten poets raving. BYRON'S Don Juan. 17. Her glossy hair was cluster'd o'er a brow Bright with intelligence, and fair and smooth; BYRON'S Don Juan. 18. An eye's an eye, and, whether black or blue, Is no great matter, so 't is in request; "T is nonsense to dispute about a hue; The kindest may be taken as the best. BYRON'S Don Juan. 19. A pure, transparent, pale, and radiant face, Like to a lighted alabaster vase. BYRON'S Don Juan. 20. Her eye's dark charm 't were vain to tell; BYRON'S Giaour. 21. Soft eyes look'd love to eyes that spoke again. BYRON'S Childe Harold. 22. And the wild sparkle of her eye seem'd caught From high, and lighten'd with electric thought. 23. And eyes disclos'd what eyes alone can tell. 24. Eyes like the starlight of the soft midnight, So darkly beautiful, so deeply bright. BYRON'S Lara. DR. DWIGHT. MRS. C. H. W. ESLING. 25. And hate's last lightning quivers from his eyes. CHARLES SPRrague. 26. There are whole veins of diamonds in thine eyes, Might furnish crowns for all the queens of earth. BAILEY'S Festus. 27. With lightsome brow, and beaming eyes, and bright, Long, glorious locks, which drop upon thy cheek, Like gold-hued cloud-flakes on the rosy morn. 28. Thy blue eyes BAILEY'S Festus. Steal o'er the heart like sunshine o'er the skies; That to the inmost spirit wins its way; MRS. A. B. WELBY. 29. The bright black eye, the melting blue I cannot choose between the two; That wears for me the sweetest smile. O. W. HOLMES. 30. Sweet, pouting lips, whose colour mocks the rose, R. H. WILDE's Tasso's Sonnets. 31. Yet well that eye could flash resentment's rays, 32. Let other men bow, and utter the vow Of devotion and love without end, C. F. HOFFMAN. As the sparkling black eye in triumph draws nigh,' But give me the eye, thro' which I can spy To the depths of a heart warm and true; Whose colour may vie with the hue of the sky,- J. T. WATSON. 2. I took it for a fairy vision Of some gay creatures of the element, SHAKSPEARE. MILTON'S Comus. 3. And now they throng the moonlight glade, Above-below-on every side, 4. Their little minim forms array'd In all the tricksy pomp of fairy pride! DRAKE'S Culprit Fay. The palace of the sylphid queen- DRAKE'S Culprit Fay. 5. Her mantle was the purple roll'd DRAKE'S Culprit Fay. 6. Their harps are of the amber shade, That hides the blush of waking day, And every gleamy string is made Of silvery moonshine's lengthen'd ray. DRAKE'S Culprit Fay. |