Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846), A Prayer (1844)
“The sunshine of thine eyes,
(O still celestial beam!)
Whatever it touches it fills
With the life of its lambent gleam.
The sunshine of thine eyes,
Oh, let it fall on me!
Though I be but a mote of the air,
I could turn to gold for thee.”
"The Sunshine of thine Eyes" in Dreams and Days (1892).
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "The sunshine of thine eyes,
(O still celestial beam!)
Whatever it touches it fills
With the life of its lambent glea…" by George Parsons Lathrop?
George Parsons Lathrop 1
United States novelist and poet 1851–1898Related quotes
“As sunshine broken in the rill,
Though turned astray, is sunshine still.”
Thomas Moore
(1779–1852) Irish poet, singer and songwriter
Lalla Rookh http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00generallinks/lallarookh/index.html (1817), Part V-VIII: The Fire-Worshippers
“There is nothing small in God's eyes; let there be nothing small in thine.”
Sri Aurobindo
(1872–1950) Indian nationalist, freedom fighter, philosopher, yogi, guru and poet
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913), Karma
Song, To Celia, lines 1-16; this poem was inspired by "Letter XXIV" of Philostratus, which in translation reads: "Drink to me with your eyes alone…. And if you will, take the cup to your lips and fill it with kisses, and give it so to me".
The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio (1616), The Forest
Context: Drink to me only with thine eyes,
And I will pledge with mine;
Or leave a kiss but in the cup
And I'll not look for wine.
The thirst that from the soul doth rise
Doth ask a drink divine;
But might I of Jove's nectar sup,
I would not change for thine.
I sent thee late a rosy wreath,
Not so much honoring thee
As giving it a hope that there
It could not withered be.
But thou thereon didst only breathe,
And sent'st it back to me;
Since when it grows and smells, I swear,
Not of itself, but thee.
“Thine eye was on the censer,
And not the hand that bore it.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
(1809–1894) Poet, essayist, physician
Lines by a Clerk; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“When Thou didst regard me,
Thine eyes imprinted in me Thy grace:”
John of the Cross
(1542–1591) Spanish mystic and Roman Catholic saint
Spiritual Canticle of The Soul and The Bridegroom
Context: When Thou didst regard me,
Thine eyes imprinted in me Thy grace:
For this didst Thou love me again,
And thereby mine eyes did merit
To adore what in Thee they saw. ~ 32
John Cassian
(360–435) Christian monk and theologian
Book VIII, Chapter V
Institutes of the Coenobia (c. 420 AD)
Frances Ridley Havergal
(1836–1879) British poet and hymn-writer
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 398.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
(1837–1909) English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic
Faliero, Act III, Sc. 1.
Marino Faliero (1885)
Context: So be it the wind and sun
That reared thy limbs and lit thy veins with life
Have blown and shone upon thee not for nought—
If these have fed and fired thy spirit as mine
With love, with faith that casts out fear, with joy,
With trust in truth and pride in trust — if thou
Be theirs indeed as theirs am I, with me
Shalt thou take part and with my sea-folk — aye,
Make thine eyes wide and give God wondering thanks
That grace like ours is given thee — thou shalt bear
Part of our praise for ever.