All WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Quotes about “Eyes”

“And suddenly all your troubles melt away, all your worries are gone, and it is for no reason other than the look in your partner's eyes. Yes, sometimes life and love really is that simple.”
“Open-mindedness is the harvest of a quiet eye.”
“My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard.”
“Until, the breath of this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul: While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.”
“She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight, A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of twilight fair, Like twilights too her dusky hair, But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful dawn.”
“Alas! how little can a moment show Of an eye where feeling plays In ten thousand dewy rays: A face o'er which a thousand shadows go!”
“The harvest of a quiet eye, That broods and sleeps on his own heart.”
“She gave me eyes, she gave me ears; And humble cares, and delicate fears; A heart, the fountain of sweet tears; And love and thought and joy.”
“The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion; the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, An appetite; a feeling and a love that had no need of a remoter charm by thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.”
“And now I see with eye serene, The very pulse of the machine. A being breathing thoughtful breaths, A traveler between life and death.”
“The tears into his eyes were brought, And thanks and praises seemed to run So fast out of his heart, I thought They never would have done. -I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning; Alas! the gratitude of men Hath oftener left me mourning.”
“The eyeâ€” it cannot choose but see; we cannot bid the ear be still; our bodies feel, where'er they be, against or with our will.”
“Thou best philosopher, who yet dost keep/ Thy heritage, thou eye among the blind.”
“Yon foaming flood seems motionless as ice;Its dizzy turbulence eludes the eye,Frozen by distance.”
“The clouds that gather round the setting sun do take a sober colouring from an eye that hath kept watch o'er man's mortality; another race hath been, and other palms are won. Thanks to the human heart by which we live, thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears, to me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.”

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