“And looks commercing with the skies,
Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes.”
John Milton (1608–1674) English epic poet
Source: Il Penseroso (1631), Line 39
Source: Othello
“And looks commercing with the skies,
Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes.”
John Milton (1608–1674) English epic poet
Source: Il Penseroso (1631), Line 39
Anne Brontë book Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell
Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846), To Cowper (1842)
William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) American romantic poet and journalist
Oh Fairest of the Rural Maids http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16341/16341-h/16341-h.htm#page91 (1820)
“Since heaven's eternal year is thine.”
John Dryden (1631–1700) English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century
To the Pious Memory of Mrs. Anne Killegrew (1686), line 15.
“Nor can his blessed soul look down from heaven,
Or break the eternal sabbath of his rest.”
John Dryden (1631–1700) English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century
Act V, scene 2.
The Spanish Friar (1681)
“Look out upon the stars, my love,
And shame them with thine eyes.”
Edward Coote Pinkney (1802–1828) American poet, lawyer, sailor, professor, and editor
A Serenade, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Alice Cary (1820–1871) American writer
"Reconciled" in A Memorial of Alice and Phoebe Cary: with some of their later poems (1875) edited by Mary Clemmer Ames, p. 182.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) Poet, essayist, physician
The chambered Nautilus; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Look, then, into thine heart, and write!”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet
Voices of the Night http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/lit/poetry/TheCompletePoeticalWorksofHenryWadsworthLongfellow/Chap1.html, Prelude, st. 19 (1839).
“Yes, Heaven is thine; but this
Is a world of sweets and sours;
Our flowers are merely—flowers.”
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) American author, poet, editor and literary critic
"Israfel", st. 7 (1831).