Richard Lovelace: Eye

Richard Lovelace was English writer and poet. Explore interesting quotes on eye.

Richard Lovelace: 32 quotes0 likes

“Here we’ll strip and cool our fire
In cream below, in milk-baths higher;
And when all wells are drawn dry,
I’ll drink a tear out of thine eye.”

Richard Lovelace

To Amarantha, That She Would Dishevel Her Hair (l. 21–24).
Lucasta (1649)

“When I lie tangled in her hair,
And fettered to her eye,
The gods that wanton in the air
Know no such liberty.”

Richard Lovelace

To Althea: From Prison, st. 1.
Lucasta (1649)

“Oh, could you view the melody
Of every grace
And music of her face,
You'd drop a tear;
Seeing more harmony
In her bright eye
Than now you hear.”

Richard Lovelace

Orpheus to Beasts. Compare: "There is music in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument; for there is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres", Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, Part ii, Section ix; "The mind, the music breathing from her face", Lord Byron, Bride of Abydos (1813), canto i, stanza 6.
Lucasta (1649)