Blue Eyes Melt; Dark Eyes Burn

The eyes that melt, the eyes that burn,
The lips that make a lover yearn,
These flashed on my bewildered sight,
Like meteors of the northern night.

Then said I, in my wild amaze,
" What stars be they that greet my gaze ?
Where shall my shivering rudder turn ? —"
To eyes that melt, or eyes that burn ?

" Ah ! safer far the darkling sea
Than where such perilous signals be ;
To rock, and storm, and whirlwind turn
From eyes that melt, and eyes that burn."