Source: Il Penseroso (1631), Line 39
“Instruct thine eyes to keep their colours true,
And tell thy soul, their roots are left in mine.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning book Sonnets from the Portuguese
No. LXIV
Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850)
Context: Here's ivy! — take them, as I used to do
Thy flowers, and keep them where they shall not pine.
Instruct thine eyes to keep their colours true,
And tell thy soul, their roots are left in mine.
“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
“Look at the stars! look, look up at the skies!
O look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air!”
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) English poet
" The Starlight Night http://www.bartleby.com/122/8.html" (1877), lines 1-3 <br class="br">Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918) <br class="br">Context: Look at the stars! look, look up at the skies!<br>O look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air!<br>The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there!
Philip Doddridge (1702–1751) English Nonconformist leader, educator, and hymnwriter
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 397.
