Love
The Night Has a Thousand Eyes
From Victorian Songs (1895)
Love
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.
Cite this poem
MLA
Bourdillon, F. W. “The Night Has a Thousand Eyes.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bourdillon/1/.
Chicago
Bourdillon, F. W. “The Night Has a Thousand Eyes.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bourdillon/1/.
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