The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.

Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.

In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in
it what the eye brings means of seeing.

In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in
it what the eye brings means of seeing.

My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams are reflected.

My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams are reflected.

The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be
single, thy whole body shall be read more

The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be
single, thy whole body shall be full of light.

With eyes that look'd into the very soul--
. . . .
Bright--and as black and burning read more

With eyes that look'd into the very soul--
. . . .
Bright--and as black and burning as coal.

He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling
wilderness; he led him about, he instructed read more

He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling
wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as
the apple of his eye.

My eyes make pictures, when they are shut.

My eyes make pictures, when they are shut.

Her eye (I'm very fond of handsome eyes)
Was large and dark, suppressing half its fire
Until read more

Her eye (I'm very fond of handsome eyes)
Was large and dark, suppressing half its fire
Until she spoke, then through its soft disguise
Flash'd an expression more of pride than ire,
And love than either; and there would arise,
A something in them which was not desire,
But would have been, perhaps, but for the soul,
Which struggled through and chansten'd down the whole.