William Shakespeare on Eyes
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“Sometimes from her eyes I did receive fair speechless messages.”
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is wing'd Cupid blind.”
“I see how thine eye would emulate the diamond: thou hast the right archèd beauty of the brow.”
“But hers, which through the crystal tears gave light, Shone like the moon in water seen by night.”
“Her eyes in heaven Would through the airy region stream so bright, That birds would sing and think it were not night.”
“The image of a wicked heinous fault Lives in his eye: that close aspect of his Does show the mood of a much troubled breast.”
“Her eyes, like marigolds, had sheath'd their light; And, canopied in darkness, sweetly lay, Till they might open to adorn the day.”
“Black brows they say Become some women best, so that there be not Too much hair there, but in a semicircle Or a half-moon made with a pen.”
“If I could write the beauty of your eyes, And in fresh numbers number all your graces, The age to come would say, "This poet lies; Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces."”
“You have seen Sunshine and rain at once. * * * those happy smilets, That play'd on her ripe lip, seem'd not to know What guests were in her eyes; which parted thence, As pearls from diamonds dropp'd.”
“Her two blue windows faintly she up-heaveth, Like the fair sun, when in his fresh array He cheers the morn, and all the earth relieveth; And as the bright sun glorifies the sky, So is her face illumin'd with her eye.”