“Dear, as the light that visits these sad eyes;
Dear, as the ruddy drops that warm my heart.”
I. 3. lines 39-40
The Bard (1757)
The Time I've Lost in Wooing, st. 1. <br class="br"> Irish Melodies http://www.musicanet.org/robokopp/moore.html (1807–1834)
“Dear, as the light that visits these sad eyes;
Dear, as the ruddy drops that warm my heart.”
I. 3. lines 39-40
The Bard (1757)
“There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words.”
Arthur Conan Doyle book The Hound of the Baskervilles
Source: The Hound of the Baskervilles
“Young men's love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet
Francis William Bourdillon (1852–1921) British poet
"Light" (popularly known as "The Night has a Thousand Eyes"), published in The Spectator (October 1873).
Context: p>The Night has a thousand eyes,
And the Day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun.The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one;
Yet the light of a whole life dies
When love is done.</p
Elizabeth Wurtzel (1967–2020) American author and journalist
Source: More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction
“My heart, the bird of the wilderness, has found its sky in your eyes.”
Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath
31 <br class="br"> The Gardener http://www.spiritualbee.com/love-poems-by-tagore/ (1915)
Peter Gabriel (1950) English singer-songwriter, record producer and humanitarian
Blood of Eden
Song lyrics, Us (1992)