The poetical works of Robert Stephen Hawker Edited from the original manuscripts and annotated copies together with a prefatory notice and bibliography by Alfred Wallis |
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“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.
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?
“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.”
Than where such perilous signals be;
To rock, and storm, and whirlwind turn
From eyes that melt, and eyes that burn.”
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