Love
Turn, Pretty Blue Eyes! Wheresoever Ye Shine
From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)
Turn, pretty blue eyes! wheresoever ye shine
May pity persuade you to light upon mine!
Our yesterday's glances by silent consent,
Alternate from each, swiftly came, swiftly went.
My zeal, my intemperate zeal, I deplore;
I adored, and I burn'd to make others adore.
O pardon, bright idol! Henceforth shall thy shrine
Remurmur my sighs, and remurmur but mine.
Thy suppliant shall grow more content and more wise,
And his first and last prayer be, Turn, pretty blue eyes!
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Landor, Walter Savage. “Turn, Pretty Blue Eyes! Wheresoever Ye Shine.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/354/.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “Turn, Pretty Blue Eyes! Wheresoever Ye Shine.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/354/.
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