| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910. | | | | When on Mine Eyes Her Eyes First Shone | | By John Wilson (1595–1674) |
| | | WHEN 1 on mine eyes her eyes first shone, | |
| I all amazèd | |
| Steadily gazèd, | |
| And she to make me more amazèd, | |
| So caught, so wove, four eyes in one | 5 |
| As who had with advisement seen us | |
| Would have admired love’s equal force between us. | |
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| But treason in those friend-like eyes, | |
| My heart first charming | |
| And then disarming, | 10 |
| So maimed it, e’er it dreamed of harming, | |
| As at her mercy now it lies, | |
| And shews me, to my endless smart, | |
| She loved but with her eyes, I with my heart. | |
| | | Note 1. From Wilson’s Cheerful Ayres or Ballads, 1660. [back] | | |
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