What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy read more

What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.

The night has a thousand eyes,
And the day but one;
Yet the light of the bright read more

The night has a thousand eyes,
And the day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun.
The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one:
Yet the light of a whole life dies
When love is done.

With eyes that look'd into the very soul--
. . . .
Bright--and as black and burning read more

With eyes that look'd into the very soul--
. . . .
Bright--and as black and burning as coal.

A gray eye is a sly eye,
And roguish is a brown one;
Turn full upon me read more

A gray eye is a sly eye,
And roguish is a brown one;
Turn full upon me thy eye,--
Ah, how its wavelets drown one!
A blue eye is a true eye;
Mysterious is a dark one,
Which flashes like a spark-sun!
A black eye is the best one.

He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling
wilderness; he led him about, he instructed read more

He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling
wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as
the apple of his eye.

The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination awake.

The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination awake.

In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye at the last trump: for
the trumpet shall sound, and read more

In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye at the last trump: for
the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised
incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

My eyes make pictures, when they are shut.

My eyes make pictures, when they are shut.

No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.

No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.