“Eternity was in our lips and eyes.”
As quoted, Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare, Act I, scene ii (1623)
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Source: Under the Volcano (1947), Ch. XII (p. 346)
“Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.”
Rory O' More, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
“Two eyes our souls possess:
While one is turned on time,
The other seeth things
Eternal and sublime”
The Cherubinic Wanderer
“in crowded rooms they would form words with their lips for each other's eyes”
Source: The Beautiful and Damned
“Like Dead Sea fruits, that tempt the eye,
But turn to ashes on the lips.”
Lalla Rookh http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00generallinks/lallarookh/index.html (1817), Part V-VIII: The Fire-Worshippers
“Heart on her lips, and soul within her eyes,
Soft as her clime, and sunny as her skies.”
Stanza 45.
Beppo (1818)