Love
Give Me the Eyes That Look on Mine
From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)
Love
Give me the eyes that look on mine,
And, when they see them dimly shine,
Are moister than they were.
Give me the eyes that fain would find
Some relicks of a youthful mind
Amid the wrecks of care.
Give me the eyes that catch at last
A few faint glimpses of the past,
And, like the arkite dove,
Bring back a long-lost olive bough,
And can discover even now
A heart that once could love.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “Give Me the Eyes That Look on Mine.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/440/.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “Give Me the Eyes That Look on Mine.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/440/.
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