Love
Maiden Eyes
From The Home Book of Verse, ed. Burton Egbert Stevenson (1918)
Love
You never bade me hope, 'tis true;
I asked you not to swear:
But I looked in those eyes of blue,
And read a promise there.
The vow should bind, with maiden sighs
That maiden lips have spoken:
But that which looks from maiden eyes
Should last of all be broken.
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MLA
Griffin, Gerald. “Maiden Eyes.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/griffin_g/7/.
Chicago
Griffin, Gerald. “Maiden Eyes.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/griffin_g/7/.
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