Sketches from Life in Town and Country And some Verses: By Edward Carpenter: With Portrait |
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EYES, SAD AND SWEET
Sad eyes, some say because you are so sweet
Love carols like a lark in your blue heaven,
And flashes forth in song, and soars to meet
The morning sun what time the mists are riven.
Love carols like a lark in your blue heaven,
And flashes forth in song, and soars to meet
The morning sun what time the mists are riven.
Some say, dear eyes, because you are so bright
Fanciful lightnings thrill whoe'er you greet,
Your splendour pierces with faint pain, your light
Consumes like fire, because you are so sweet.
Fanciful lightnings thrill whoe'er you greet,
Your splendour pierces with faint pain, your light
Consumes like fire, because you are so sweet.
Sweet eyes! I say because you are so sad
You touch us thro' the heart of all our sorrow,
Transforming grief to music, and the mad
Processions of despair men call “to-morrow”
You touch us thro' the heart of all our sorrow,
Transforming grief to music, and the mad
Processions of despair men call “to-morrow”
Into a heaven of hopes that lightly throng
Like birds thro' the far winter of our tears,
Waking the gloomy woodlands into song
And brushing with their wings the windless meres.
Like birds thro' the far winter of our tears,
Waking the gloomy woodlands into song
And brushing with their wings the windless meres.
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