Percy Bysshe Shelley - Eyes: A Fragment lyrics

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Percy Bysshe Shelley - Eyes: A Fragment lyrics

[Published by Rossetti, "Complete Poetical Works of P. B. S.", 1870; dated 1810. Included (four unpublished eight-line stanzas) in the Esdaile man*script book.)] How eloquent are eyes! Not the rapt poet's frenzied lay When the soul's wildest feelings stray Can speak so well as they. How eloquent are eyes! Not music's most impa**ioned note On which Love's warmest fervours float Like them bids rapture rise. Love, look thus again,— That your look may light a waste of years, Darting the beam that conquers cares Through the cold shower of tears. Love, look thus again! ***