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SONNETS: 8. BELOVED EYES, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dearest, beneath your lashes' shadow bides
Last Line: With wings of pity once more wash them clean.
Subject(s): Beauty; Doves; Eyes; Love


DEAREST, beneath your lashes' shadow bides
A troop of poignant loves which, passing, seem
To trail their wings reluctant as a dream
Flitting at sunrise over ebbing tides
Of azure sleep; and like twin bashful brides
Bowered in dark pines beside a tranquil stream
Your eyes are; and their light, as snows that gleam
Where naked Psyche in her chamber hides.

And though of all your eyes' deep splendours, Love
Is lord and king, he ruleth them unseen,
Like God the wonders of the skies above;
But if Death blur those mirrors, Love, I ween,
Will weep beside my soul till God's white dove
With wings of pity once more wash them clean.





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