Elizabeth Barrett Browning Eye Quotations

Deep violets, you liken to The kindest eyes that look on you, Without a thought disloyal.

Eyes of gentianellas azure, Staring, winking at the skies.

There Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world; oh, eyes sublime With tears and laughter for all time!

Death forerunneth Love to win "Sweetest eyes were ever seen."

"There is no God," the foolish saith, But none, "There is no sorrow." And nature oft the cry of faith In bitter need will borrow: Eyes which the preacher could not school, By wayside graves are raised; And lips say, "God be pitiful," Who ne'er said, "God be praised."

What we call Life is a condition of the soul. And the soul must improve in happiness and wisdom, except by its own fault. These tears in our eyes, these faintings of the flesh, will not hinder such improvement.

A man may love a woman perfectly, and yet by no means ignorantly maintain a thousand women have not larger eyes. Enough that she alone has looked at him with eyes that, large or small, have won his soul.

Folded eyes see brighter colors than the open ever do.

Large, musing eyes, neither joyous nor sorry.

And there my little doves did sit With feathers softly brown And glittering eyes that showed their right To general Nature's deep delight.

The large white owl that with eye is blind, That hath sate for years in the old tree hollow, Is carried away in a gust of wind.

Nosegays! leave them for the waking, Throw them earthward where they grew Dim are such, beside the breaking Amaranths he looks unto. Folded eyes see brighter colors than the open ever do.