Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume II. Love. 1904. | | | | I. Admiration | | Black and Blue Eyes | | Thomas Moore (1779–1852) |
| | | THE BRILLIANT black eye | |
| May in triumph let fly | |
| All its darts without caring who feels ’em; | |
| But the soft eye of blue, | |
| Though it scatter wounds too, | 5 |
| Is much better pleased when it heals ’em! | |
| Dear Fanny! | |
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| The black eye may say, | |
| “Come and worship my ray; | |
| By adoring, perhaps you may move me!” | 10 |
| But the blue eye, half hid, | |
| Says, from under its lid, | |
| “I love, and am yours, if you love me!” | |
| Dear Fanny! | |
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| Then tell me, O why, | 15 |
| In that lovely blue eye, | |
| Not a charm of its tint I discover; | |
| Or why should you wear | |
| The only blue pair | |
| That ever said “No” to a lover? | 20 |
| Dear Fanny! | | | | |
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