Potential Titles: Eyes (and adjacent)

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The naked eye is penumbra in cataract - Sheikha A. "Nesters"

Erase your eyes from my heart - Dilmurat Abduqeyum "Nothing" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

Tearing the eye of the river open - Leena Aboutaleb "Hijacked Interiors"

An eye that opens on another world - Duane Ackerson "The Blind Man"

Seeing the world through donated eyes - Duane Ackerson "The Blind Man"

The changes begin to fill the corners of your eyes - Duane Ackerson "The Painting Speaks"

The dreambike had eyes on its spokes - Duane Ackerson " Proof of Existence"

And starry eyes on lattice fixed - Harold Acton "Capriccio Espagnol"

Drooping eyes of jasmine-flowers - Harold Acton "Lament for Adonis"

A human one with moonflowers for eyes - Liz Adair "Dragon in the E.R."

Because I have failed under the eye of history - Mary Alexandra Agner "Children of Breath"

Could fit in a pigeon's eye - Kaveh Akbar "Love Poem with Bighead"

Attentive eye on virtue's graceful deeds - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"

His eyes are two keen blades - "Alain the Fox" (translated by F.G. Fleay)

The stars' soft eyes alone may see - Louisa May Alcott "Fairy Song"

While the bright eyed stars their long watch kept - Louisa May Alcott "The Flower's Lesson"

Opened the violet's soft blue eye - Louisa May Alcott "Lily-Bell and Thistledown"

The eyes in our back keep vigil - Daisy Aldan "A Dance Without Touch"

Eyes empty as her hopes of escape - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"

My own man in the eyes of the law - Mike Allen "The Journey to Kailash"

That touched the ancient folds around his eyes - Mike Allen "The Journey to Kailash"

Somewhere parsecs deep behind your eyes - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"

The clusters of her eyes pressed shut - Mike Allen "Metarebellion"

Arrayed behind his eyes in primary bands of power - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"

Mocks sad-eyed Ishtar and her mourning maids - William Talbot Allison "There Sat the Women Weeping for Thammuz"

Our factories sleep with one eye open - Alise Alousi "Detroit 1998, a reminiscence"

Protect us from the envy of others' eyes - Alise Alousi "Tangent"

To avoid the sight of needy eyes - Julia Alvarez "Disappearing"

The subway, eye of a concrete needle - Hala Alyan "Turnpike // Ghost"

Position fear between our eyes and feet - Mouna Ammar "Fog's Invitation"

Walked through the briars with her eyes wide open - Nathalie F. Anderson "Shirt of Nettles, House of Thorns"

Eyes blinking in every direction - Ralph Angel "In Every Direction"

My basket made of many eyes - Betsy Aoki "A crowd of yakubyō gami (pestilence yōkai)"

More than one eye on your lies - Betsy Aoki "A crowd of yakubyō gami (pestilence yōkai)"

Crafty glance and hidden eye - "An Army Contractor" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]

The whitest no eye could choose - Sir Edwin Arnold "He and She"

my soul is the oasis inside his eyes - Wale Ayinla "To Disappear into a Song Wide Enough to Drown"

Drown with open eyes in light - Ingeborg Bachmann "The Great Freight" transl. by Bill Crisman

With holes that look like the eyes of owls - Nina Bagley "Gathering"

In the farthest valley of the eye - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"

Salutes the pilgrim's eye - Benjamin West Ball "Anastasius"

Has hidden long from weeping eyes - Benjamin West Ball "Autumn"

Unequalled prospects to enchant the eye - Benjamin West Ball "Ionia"

Nor serpent's eye, nor siren's lute - Benjamin West Ball "To --"

To be seen by my pincushion eye - Mary Jo Bang "The Circus Watcher"

With a velvet curtain over your eyes - Mary Jo Bang "Dwelling in Our Time"

Windows all masquerading as insect eyes - Mary Jo Bang "Having Both the Present and Future in Mind"

Fixed to the list of her eye - Mary Jo Bang "Night Falling Fast"

The tailor's eye which knows by sight - Mary Jo Bang "Still Life with Glasses"

Everywhere the eye discovers fortune - Mary Jo Bang "When Meeting Beauty"

When it's April in the eye - Mary Jo Bang "The Year Chases its Tail"

Sultry clouds her blazing eyes bedim - Maurice Baring "Phedre"

Leans into the eye of a joke - Lou Barrett "Red Lunch Basket"

Perfection is target to the eye - Elizabeth Bartlett "Achilles Had His Heel"

And leave me eyes with which to weep - Elizabeth Bartlett "Convert"

The frightened eyes of the city glow - Elizabeth Bartlett "Dark Angel"

And trick time's crafty eyes - Elizabeth Bartlett "Final Performance"

before our eyes were covered - Elizabeth Bartlett "grass flesh"

The eye of light opens - Elizabeth Bartlett "The House of Sleep"

time was an eyeless reach - Elizabeth Bartlett "item: body found"

An eyeless reach across immensity - Elizabeth Bartlett "Item: Body Found"

Beyond the eye's threshold - Elizabeth Bartlett "This Side the Fog"

Clear eyes aware of sight - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Trap"

Brimming every traveller's eyes - Charlotte Fiske Bates "On a Noble Character Marred by Littleness"

Hell on shore behind the eyes - Dan Beachy-Quick "Variations on Dawn and Dusk"

Wizard Envy from his serpent eye - James Beattie "Ode to Hope"

Who close the eyes of Sorrow - James Beattie "Ode to Hope"

By the blasting lightning of his eyes - James Beattie "Ode to Peace: Written in the Year 1756"

The ghost who rents your eyes - Erin Belieu "Dum Spiro Spero"

And catch the magic of her eye - "The Belles of Williamsburg"

To wipe the bitter tear from Sorrow's eye - Blanche Benairde "Angels on Earth" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

With steady eyes of awful friendship - Stephen Vincent Benet "Blood Brothers"

Whose eyes can beat down lions' eyes - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Etcher"

Her eyes are seas more quiet than sleep - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

Chintz that blinks with dragon's eyes - Stephen Vincent Benet "Les Cruches Cassees"

Her soul was steel and her eyes were bleak - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Plow"

Colder than leopards' eyes the arc - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Song of Cold and Pain"

Filtering into the eye of the sun - Arthur Christopher Benson "Δαιμονιζόμενος"

With analogue, textile eyes - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "The Loom"

Connect by their light entering our eyes - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Pegasus"

Light in the minerals of their eyes - Mei-mei Berssenbrugge "Wonder"

Your eyes have a secret highway - Rebecca G. Biber "Internal"

The nine eyes of the desert - Sherwin Bitsui "from 'Dissolve'"

Clasp the nine eyes of the desert - Sherwin Bitsui "from 'Dissolve'"

Match the spirals in her eyes - Richard Blanco "Mexican Almuerzo in New England"

The eyes of Mary Magdalene - Jean Blewett "The Two Marys"

Whose eyes are already convinced - Maxwell Bodenheim "Fantasy"

Possessed by the plight of eyes - Maxwell Bodenheim "More About Captain Simmons"

His ecstasy of staring, counterfeit eyes - Maxwell Bodenheim "North Clark Street, Chicago"

With eyes of radium - Max Bodenheim "The Operation"

Tapering fingers and metal eyes - Max Bodenheim "The Operation"

To the rotted prayers of eyes - Maxwell Bodenheim "South State Street: Chicago"

Imagination drenches his eyes - Maxwell Bodenheim "The Sword Converses with a Philosopher"

My eyes on the yellow dust - Louise Bogan "Medusa"

Pawning our milky eyes for any clues - Katy Bond "Sestina for a Friend Misplaced and Recovered"

Go through the gates with closed eyes - Arna Bontemps "Close Your Eyes!"

Brighter than a coyote's eye - Julia Bouwsma "Dear ghosts, in winter my camp on the hill becomes"

Burned a Jacob's Ladder into my eyes - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"

The wind plays tricks on the eyes - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"

See rushing water in your eyes - Shannon Bramer "You Speak Violets"

From my eyes of trust - Anna Hempstead Branch "While Loveliness Goes By"

on a winter evening eyes see furthest - Dylan Brennan "A First Glimpse of Ireland" [excerpt]

The opal-eyed vampires of hell - Howard Futhey Brinton "The Pacifist"

My eyes are tired of weeping - Anne Bronte "Appeal"

While gazing on her full bright eye - Anne Bronte "The Captive Dove"

Light cannot fill the craving eye - Anne Bronte "Vanitas Vanitatum, Omnia Vanitas"

Why I had brought a clouded eye - Emily Bronte "A Day Dream"

The eyes in terrors dressed - Patrick Bronte "Journeying for the Recovery of His Health"

The amazing lights of heart and eye - Rupert Brooke "Sonnet Reversed"

The blue eye of that young crow cocked to me - Nickole Brown "A Prayer to Talk to Animals"

Our nights have cruel eyes - Paul Cameron Brown "Investiture"

The soft equilibrium behind laughing eyes - Paul Cameron Brown "Moon Dark World"

With the old spell of its eyes - Marie Hedderwick Browne "A June Memory"

The flame perishes in thine eyes - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"

The eyes of Death are dry - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Showing How Rosalind Fared by the Keeping of the Vow"

From a hundred brighter eyes - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Sonnet III in Sonnets from the Portuguese"

Someone else with a stranger's eye - Joseph Bruchac "Prints"

Through the eyes of the land - Joseph Bruchac "Speaking"

A blessing for the eyes that weep - William Cullen Bryant "Blessed Are They That Mourn"

The hyena's eyes of flame - William Cullen Bryant "Rizpah"

Flee the eye of Truth - Lyman Bryson "The Prophet"

Stars emerging from the centers of her eyes - Sue Budin "Sally Hawkins Speaks"

Strings flowing like music in your eyes - Richard Ford Burley "Birds in Flight"

And goes with eyes to see the sun - Francis Burrows "Life"

Your eyes are breathing - Julie Byrne "Follow My Voice"

The eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly - Lord Byron "The Destruction of Sennacherib"

A thousand eyes in vulgar wonder scanned - A.Y. Campbell "The Dromedary"

His eye's sad devotion - Thomas Campbell "Exile of Erin"

As the eye and the tongue of the serpent - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Vengeance of Saki"

Eyes down as though you might be able to forget - Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello "The Houseguest"

With eyes of wrath and wonder - Lewis Carroll "Phantasmagoria: Canto II. Hys Fyve Rules"

Who carries the horizon in his eyes - Paul Carroll "Fragments from an Abandoned Ode"

Hit my eyes from the inside - Anne Carson "The Glass Essay"

All night with closed eyes - Anne Carson "O Small Sad Ecstasy of Love"

Wakened eyes of moonlit dew - David Gillis Carter "Dusk"

Into the city of tired eyes - D.G. Carter "Offering"

Drawn out of my eyes - Miguel Casado "The Arrival of March, IV"

The unseeing eyes of discontent - Willa Cather "A Likeness: Portrait Bust of an Unknown, Capitol, Rome"

The desert of those eyes - Willa Cather "Street in Packingtown"

A music of the eye - Charles Causley "The Swan"

Ate everything with my monster eye - Wo Chan "Such As"

Eyes that orphan mine - Stephanie Chang "Spider Lily Cyborg"

His eyes two open ovens - Tina Chang "Celestial"

Eyes of owl and feet of fox - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book IV. The Woman in the Forest"

And the forest is full of eyes - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book V. Ethandune: The First Stroke"

With the frosty eyes of widows - Gospel Chinedu "In a Tissue Processing Class the Lecturer Tells the Biafra War Through the Lenses of a Microscope"

Acid wind strikes my eyes - Chou Pang-Yen "[Leaves fall, slanting sun lights the river]" transl. by Burton Watson

While the dazzled eye surveys - John Clare "Noon"

Under the sun's widening eye - Gillian Clarke "Cuckoo"

Close our eyes against regret - Lucille Clifton "mirror"

The surprised and ungrateful eye - Lucille Clifton [untitled]

By hasty eyes to be confused - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

With pure and humble eyes - Arthur Hugh Clough "An Evening Walk in Spring"

Close up clear eyes - Arthur Hugh Clough "The Hidden Love"

And strife but blinds the eyes - Arthur Hugh Clough "Noli Aemulari"

Close your eyes in the storm - Leonard Cohen "The News You Really Hate"

My angel with one red eye - CR Colby "The Last Punk Rock Band in the Zombie Apocalypse"

A woman with the West in her eyes - Mary Coleridge "Unwelcome"

With face averted and unsteady eyes - Coleridge "The Pang More Sharp Than All"

The closed labyrinth of your eyes - Antonio Colinas "Nocturne"

To the eyes of him who lifts the veil - Arthur Colton "The Thrush"

As far as a satellite's eye could see - S. R. Compton "On the K-T Boundary"

With a polished eye around their neck - Nicole Connolly "Dream Job"

As dawn to eyes that wake - Susan Coolidge "'Of Such as I Have'"

The eagle of the rock has such an eye - Carolina Coronado "The Lost Bird" transl. by William Cullen Bryant

Warmed by the sunshine of your eyes - Corrinne "Our Wreath of Rose Buds" [student at Cherokee Female Seminary]

Vexes that wilful and capricious eye - William Cory "Amavi"

And view the earth with baleful eye - Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr. "The Band of Gideon"

With a dead eye into darkness - James H. Cousins "The Blind Father"

That buds and blossoms in her eyes - James H. Cousins "Ireland"

Hurl in space a red-eyed star - James H. Cousins "The Blind Father"

With beating hearts and eager eyes - Richard Cox, Jr. "Happiness--A Sonnet"

Our lofty hopes and longing eyes - George Crabbe "The Village: Book II"

The flick of snake in our eyes - Dorsey Craft "Rainy-Day Games with Kyle"

Made magic in my eyes - Nathalia Crane "My Husbands"

And always my eyes ached for the light - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"

Learned all his dreaming from my eyes - Adelaide Crapsey "The Witch"

Painted neon underneath my eyes - Rachelle Cruz "Aswang Paces Outside of Kaiser Permanente Hospital"

Skipping high-heeled flames courtesied before my eyes - E. E. Cummings "Amores (I)"

petals danced against my eyes and down - E. E. Cummings "Amores (VII)"

and brush the mischief from her eyes - E. E. Cummings "Amores (VII)"

With eyes a little sorry - e e cummings "in just-spring"

To undertake Medea's rescuing eyes - E.E. Cummings "Puella Mea"

your eyes have their silence - E. E. Cummings "somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond"

the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses - E. E. Cummings "somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond"

Moist eyes are at kisses playing - E. E. Cummings "Songs (IV)"

From each brave eye shall sprout a tree - E. E. Cummings "Songs (IX)"

With dancing feet and dreaming eyes - Olive Custance "In Praise of Youth"

Deep-mirrored in thine eyes - T.A. Daly "To a Plain Sweetheart"

With daring eyes of flesh and blood - T.A. Daly "To a Plain Sweetheart"

The dear lost eyes of my dead - Danske Dandridge "Lost at Sea"

Look on me with unwounding eyes - John Danyel "Why Canst Thou not, as Others Do?"

The trembling sun of eyes - Olive Tilford Dargan "Old Fairingdown"

Of Saxon eyes and barbarous soul - Ruben Dario "To Roosevelt" transl. unknown per poets.org

Nor yielded with your eyes - Russell W. Davenport "Poems XII"

Which curls the lip, which lights the eye - Lucretia Maria Davidson "The Smile of Innocence"

Whose eye, for me, has lost its witchery - Lucretia Maria Davidson "To My Mother"

Again she woke with waiting in her eyes - Mary Carolyn Davies "A Casualty List"

To hide proud kings from common eyes - William H. Davies "Sweet Stay-at-Home"

Their eyes still hungry with dreams - Kwame Dawes "Steel"

Eager eyes I might undazzled raise - José de Espronceda "Hymn to the Sun" transl. by Ida Farnell

No longer will seem fables in your eyes - Tomas de Iriarte "Epistle to Don Domingo de Iriarte, on His Travelling to Various Foreign Courts" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]

Whose beauty dims my waking eyes - Walter de la Mare "Music"

Stealing soft enchantment from their eyes - Walter de la Mare "The Unfinished Dream"

Golden slumbers kiss your eyes - Thomas Dekker "Golden Slumbers"

Eyes fixed in an unknown direction - Julián del Casal "Vas Doloris" transl. by William George Williams

A diamond ring to knock your eyes out - Toi Derricotte "Weekend Guests from Chicago, 1945"

Even the eye's small water - Natalie Diaz "Duned"

Eyes like whirlpools and as dangerous - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "Revelation"

Foreign on my homesick eye - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love XII: In Vain"

The privilege of one another's eyes - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love XV: Resurrection"

Darkness underneath your eyes - Tim Dlugos "Great Art"

His eye inside you - Sharon Dolin "Evening Storm"

Opened the worn doors of his eyes - Chris Dombrowski "They Tied the Madmen to Trees Beside the River and All the Shrinks Went Out of Business"

Found a route out through his eyes - Chris Dombrowski "They Tied the Madmen to Trees Beside the River and All the Shrinks Went Out of Business"

A crowd of eyes against an asphalt wall - Timothy Donnelly "The Cloud Corporation"

Evident in the eye of the dream - Timothy Donnelly "The Cloud Corporation"

Shining eyes who dazzled twice - Cass Donish "You, Emblazoned"

Eyes prophetic of the power - Julia C.R. Dorr "Idle Words"

The eyes of anguish-stricken Cassiopeia - Edward Dowden "Andromeda"

Yielding to the eye which searches - Edward Dowden "Atalanta"

Eyes resolved on present victory - Edward Dowden "Europa"

Brooding panther fiery-eyed - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"

Sad eyes bright with strange tears - Edward Dowden "From April to October: VI. In the Wood"

Your wrathful eyes afar - Edward Dowden "Love-Tokens"

Oblivion took the heart and eye - Edward Dowden "Memorials of Travel III: The Castle"

Her eyes must meet our passion - Edward Dowden "Poesia"

No eyes of seraphim gaze in - Edward Dowden "Speakers to God"

In my eyes the vanished light - Edward Dowden "Sunsets"

The large, yearning eyes of pale Narcissus - Edward Dowden "Wise Passiveness"

With lust of flesh and eye - Eleanor Downing "The Pilgrim"

To meet the thousand eyes of night - Joseph Rodman Drake "The Culprit Fay"

And lay in the eye of the sun - Bruce Ducker "Picnic"

The starlike sorrows of immortal eyes - Carol Ann Duffy "Beautiful"

Two clear raindrops in your eyes - Carol Ann Duffy "The Light Gatherer"

Moonlight slipping from his eyes - Beasa A. Dukes "After Watching 'Moonlight'"

For years in the stones of my eyes - Michael Dumanis "The Forecast"

Aquamarine Pisces gems for eyes - Denise Dumars "The Golem"

Through the gateway of the eyes - A.E. "By the Margin of the Great Deep"

Ponders with strange old eyes - A.E. "Mystery"

Through the gateway of the eyes - A.E. "The Twilight of Earth"

That blurs your eyes with beauty - Katherine Edgren "The Swan"

A fugitive resentment in your eyes - T. S. Eliot "La Figlia Che Piange"

Mean to avoid the eyes of men - Heid E. Erdich "Black and White Monument, Photo Circa 1977"

Flees the passion of our eyes - John Erskine "Ash Wednesday"

An eye full of sunshine - C.H.W. Esling "The Mother's Pride"

So their light startles your eyes - Martin Espada "The Sinking of the San Jacinto"

To infect the mind's eye - Anne Evans "A New Variant"

Sad and sober to the eye - "Extract from an Unpublished Poem by the Author of Howard Pinckney, Etc."

As balm unto the eyes - Frederick William Faber, D.D. "The Eternal Years"

Wrong to man's blindfold eye - Frederick William Faber, D.D. "The Right Must Win"

Sunshine laughing in her eyes - "Fairy's Album: I. This is Fairy's Album"

Winning worship from the common eye - "False Estimations" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.3, March 1863]

Dews wrung from the Sun-god's eyes - Eleanor Farjeon "Apollo in Pherae"

Whose eyes lie mirrored in your cup - Eleanor Farjeon "By the Fountain"

And the Squire's eyes dwell on laughter - Eleanor Farjeon "The Quest"

The Knight's eyes dwell on a star's white crest - Eleanor Farjeon "The Quest"

The world turned its one good eye - RK Fauth "Playing with the Bees"

Those same eyes welcomed me - Tom Feelings "I Saw Your Face"

Would spin a web before your eyes - Eugene Field "Heigho, My Dearie"

In the garden of Shut-eye Town - Eugene Field "The Sugarplum Tree"

Past their eyes where the black night lives - Annie Finch "Frozen In"

Cover our eyes with the edge of winter sky - Annie Finch "Winter Solstice Chant"

Space with gaunt grey eyes and her brother Time - James Elroy Flecker "Stillness"

Let one Eye his watches keep - John Fletcher "Folding the Flocks"

From human eyes seclude - "Flora: a Vision"

The gift of two glass eyes - Sandy Florian "Abacus"

Follow the tide's wet-black eyes - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sail"

Close my eyes with coins - Carolyn Forche "Plain Song"

Wedged in the giant eye of an invisible needle - Mark Ford "Twenty Twenty Vision"

And from our eyes exacted tears - John W. Forney "Time's Changes"

Your eyes are vultures - Maxwell E. Foster "Five Sonnets 1 (February 1923)"

Fashioned for your eyes - Maxwell E. Foster "Five Sonnets 3"

All oil-slick sinew and chemical eyes - Elisheva Fox "Tzedek: The Wild Hunt"

Eyeless night - Isabel Fraire

Open my eyes to the husk of morning - Ariel Francisco "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"

Stills his eyes and sees with skin - Robert Frazier "A Feel for the Heavens"

all witnesses to the crimes of the crystallizing eye - Robert Frazier and Andrew Joron "Cities in Fog"

Tired eyes that looked at nothing at all - John Freeman "The Chair"

Up to their shining eyes in snow - Robert Frost "Good Hours"

Those that lifted eyes could count - Robert Frost "Out, Out--"

Goblin with the shining eyes - Rose Fyleman "The Fairy Queen to the Goblin"

To see with eyes serene - Zona Gale "Ballade of Eyes that See"

Old hope in her young eyes - Zona Gale "Last Night I Dreamed I Saw My Mother Young"

Let your eyes flower from the dusk and flame - Zona Gale "Return"

Muted lips and wistful eyes - Zona Gale "There Are Within Us Lives We Never Live"

To behold Him by no eyes - Zona Gale "Who Is This That Is So Near?"

The transient world's astonished eyes - Edward F. Garesche, S.J. "Niagara"

Through the eye of the astral needle - Cristina Rivera Garza "Saturday, April 17, 2010 12:49" transl. by Ilana Luna and Cheyla Samuelson

Keen January with cold eyes and clear - Sri Aurobindo Ghose "The Island Grave"

Abyss eyes lingering - Nikita Gill "After the Visit"

The blade you hid in your eyes - Nikita Gill "Io Explains Recovery to Europa"

Desecration in your eyes - Nikita Gill "Persephone to Theseus and Pirithous"

Your eye irritated by ignorance - brian g. gilmore "mardi gras in east lansing"

A dusty sweetness under fictive eyes - Dana Gioia "Pardon Me, Pilgrim"

Imagining beauty in a stranger's eyes - Dana Gioia "Prophecy"

The blanched eye of our grief - Aracelis Girmay "Ceremony for Remembering the Doorless World"

As I close my eyes for silence on a Wednesday - Emerald ᏃᏈᏏ GoingSnake "Someday I'll Love--"

Ashes hide beyond your eye - Louis Golding "Lady of Babylon"

And fill my eyes with looking - Mona Gould "Wise Child"

Unveiled eyes with tears are wet - Robert Graves "Children of Darkness"

Its white eyes unnumbered - Leah Naomi Green "Seeds and Fugue"

With fearless foot and heaven-turned eye - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Less congenial to the seeing eye - Linda Gregerson "Elegant"

Breaking just beneath the eyes - Nikki Grimes "Through the Eyes of Artists"

No sight may wound our worn-out eyes - Angelina Weld Grimké "Surrender"

The glare of wisdom blind my eyes - Edgar A. Guest "The Simple Things"

Quell the dark defiance of her eye - Louise Imogen Guiney "The Wooing Pine"

Upcast an iridescent eye serene - Louise Imogen Guiney "The Wooing Pine"

Lift the eye of fate to worlds - Eliza Paul Gurney "Heaven and Earth"

With eyes that challenge night - Ivor Gurney "Hospital Pictures 6. Upstairs Piano"

Any beauty eyes might find - Ivor Gurney "Interval"

Earth and sky to eyes once disenchanted - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

And never should his eyes turn back - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

Witched by thy Narcissus eye - Hafiz "The Divan II" (translated by H. Bicknell)

Supplies my eyes with balm - Hafiz "The Divan V" (translated by H. Bicknell)

Even the dogs eyed me askance - Han-Shan "[As long as I was living in the village]" transl. by Burton Watson

Contained the wind in my eyes - Nathalie Handal "La Carta del Capitan"

Call off your eyes from care - Thomas Hardy "A Young Man's Exhortation"

The stagger in your eyes - Joy Harjo "The Friday Before the Long Weekend"

Sends his eyes over the horizon - Joy Harjo "'I Wonder What You Are Thinking'"

The truth with its eyes staring back at me - Joy Harjo "Running"

Belshazzar raised his eyes and saw - Frances E. Watkins Harper "The Jewish Grandfather's Story"

Walls of eyes and teeth - Duriel E. Harris "What he thought belly down, when I was 8 years old"

Know the feast in their eyes - francine j. harris "from the bottom"

I gave you my eyes - Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser "Braided Creek"

Let the sunlight of truth ever flash from his eye - Robert M. Hart "The Patriot's Wish" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

And laughing eyes beheld the wheat - Patrick Joseph Hartigan writing as John O'Brien "Said Hanrahan"

With proud sorrow in their eyes - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XXVII"

As fate has lent it eyes to see - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XXVIII"

The eye of faith believes - Robert Hayden "Monet's "Waterlilies""

Their estimating, census-taking eyes - Seamus Heaney "Freedman"

The seraph Ecstasy, with lightning eye - Felicia Hemans "England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism"

Remote from careless eye - Felicia Hemans "The Ruin and its Flowers"

The vacant eye by mind deserted - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

With a conqueror's scornful eye - Felicia Hemans "Wallace's Invocation to Bruce"

Conflicts by mortal eye unseen - Felicia Hemans "Wallace's Invocation to Bruce"

Beware of what you purchase with your eyes - David Henderson "Blues Franchise"

To tear the glamour from my eyes - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "A Shadow"

That my eyes may see the fearful beauty - José María Heredia "Niagara" transl. by Thatcher Taylor Payne

Turns ever the eyes of memory - Mary E. Hewitt "The Hearth of Home"

Stuck a finger in the eye of storms - Conrad Hilberry "Early Storm"

Our eyes enact their own seasons - Conrad Hilberry "Letter to the North"

Blue scraps in the eyes of the lost - Conrad Hilberry "Malachite"

Dries the dripping eyes of dawn - Jennie Earngey Hill "Life's Day"

That cause the eye to quail - John Northern Hilliard "A Fantasie of Dreams"

Blinds the eyes with blood and vengeance - Ellen Hinsey "Epistle"

Unfold itself inside your eyes - Jane Hirshfield "A Blessing for Wedding"

Until my eyes were blind with stars - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"

Catch the stranger's curious eye - I.G. Holland "To the Spirits of My Three Departed Sisters"

Did my eyes profane the hour - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"

Raised my eye and saw the stars had not moved - Bob Holman "Van Gogh's Violin"

And with his ruby eye out-threatened Mars - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"

The storm clouds in your waking eyes - Langston Hughes "Africa"

To scatter star-dust in their eyes - Langston Hughes "Graduation"

The way your eyes elope - Luther Hughes "[Like the Japanese cherry blossoms wedded to the soil's palm]"

Dim that travelling eye - Richard Hughes "Cottager is given the Bird (1921)"

Prying eyes of malice - Aldous Huxley "Two Songs 1 [Thick-flowered is the trellis]"

The light from buried eyes - Jean Ingelow "A Dead Year"

Jealous of my happier eyes - Jean Ingelow "The Four Bridges"

Burned unseen by the world's eye - Muhammad Iqbal "An Invocation"

Washed away sleep from the eye of the narcissus - Muhammad Iqbal "The Secrets of the Self"

Opened our eyes when his own were closed - Muhammad Iqbal "The Secrets of the Self"

Their eyes carrying late rooms of light - Mark Irwin "Dear Red"

Spinning his eyes in their own pirouette - K. Iver "Sleeping Beauty"

Players with obsidian eyes - Marcus Jackson "40 Ounce"

Haloes of ash around her sleeping eyes - John James "Erosion"

Eying the spiral turn of the plum tree's gentle confetti - John James "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"

To war with visions in their eyes - Roscoe Conkling Jamison "The Negro Soldiers"

a pendulum from knowing eye to mystery - Stephanie Jean "Recommendation"

Sphered that eye of flawless diamond - Robinson Jeffers "The Truce and the Peace"

Carry my eyes into the dusk - Allison Eir Jenks "Exit"

More stars than an eye can carry - Allison Eir Jenks "In Search of a Brother"

A stick in my hand and a drop in my eye - "Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]

Your eyes are gold-leaf & reflection - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Delfonic"

My eyes yoked to a blank space - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "This Bitter Earth"

By the hot eyes of the sea - Cyree Jarelle Johnson "jersey fems in the philly zoo"

Some shadow of your eyes - E. Pauline Johnson "Through Time and Bitter Distance"

His eye to the telescope of eternity - James Weldon Johnson "Listen, Lord--A Prayer"

Laugh with malign, bright eyes - Lionel Johnson "Upon a Drawing"

Invisible angels mark your tired eyes - Lionel Johnson "Vigils"

Eyes me like a runaway - Amanda Johnston "Facing US"

Her stony eyes revealed - G.H. Johnstone "Summer"

the eye of God was made with blood - Ashley M. Jones "HOLYHEADHARRIET"

Prickling salt to sting our eyes - June Jordan "It's Hard to Keep a Clean Shirt Clean"

Wild prophet with fiery eyes - Zilka Joseph "Prophet of the Rock"

Whose eye transfixes with a fiery dart - Sir Nizamat Jung "V: Unity"

Why does the sun not have eyes? - Rahile Kamal "Kamal Has Gone" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

Lakes that cannot be the eyes of the earth - Joan Naviyuk Kane "Exceeding Beringia"

Reflected in their umbral eyes - Lesh Karan "Red Writing Hood"

The red eyes of a friend you cursed - Mary Karr "All This and More"

Blind to your own eye's intricate machine - Mary Karr "Field of Skulls"

The second hand ticking gently in front of the eyes - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"

Without burying splinters in his eyes - Janet Kauffman "The Devil's Walking Stick"

For more precision, close your eyes completely - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"

Catastrophic histories buried in my eyes - Bob Kaufman "I Have Folded My Sorrows"

Tears my eyes can't carry - Rupi Kaur "Milk and Honey"

As we might mark a lynx's eye - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

In the eyes of conquering Jove - John Keats "Hyperion"

Cool-rooted flowers fragrant-eyed - John Keats "Psyche"

The hot mist that veils my eyes - Fanny Kemble "The Death-Song"

With heavy hearts and tearful eyes - Fanny Kemble "Epistle from the Rhine: to Y---, with a bowl of Bohemian glass"

With gray eyes lifted to the moon - Fanny Kemble "Fragment [It was harvest time: the broad, bright moon]"

With an undiscerning eyes I see - Fanny Kemble "Lines, In Answer to a Question"

The stormy light of his fierce lurid eyes - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [I hear a voice low in the sunset woods]"

Your fond eyes and yearning hearts - Fanny Kemble "'Tis an Old Tale and Often Told"

The night with solemn eyes - Fanny Kemble "To --- [When the dawn]"

Clasp my hands over my weary eyes - Fanny Kemble "To the Wissahiccon"

Invent me in the half-opened eye of night - Vandana Khanna "Monologue for a Goddess in Her First Incarnation"

Sent after weeping Eyes - Anne Killigrew "The Miseries of Man"

Azrael's eyes upon her, Raphael's wings above - Rudyard Kipling "Jane's Marriage"

Against a million anonymous eyes - Elizabeth Knapp "Self-Portrait as Cindy Sherman's Instagram Account"

With the salt of love in my eyes - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"

The sun on the sea of undulating eyes - Christopher Kondrich "Clearing"

Pull on the eye with their gravities - Christopher Kondrich "Degree of Nothing"

To find your falsehoods in my eyes - Christopher Kondrich "Passaic, Speaking"

Wide eyes of welcome open to you - Ted Kooser "Barn Owl"

Her eyes like stars fixed on the future - Ted Kooser "A New Potato"

Eyes blazing with alien worlds - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "An Open Letter to Our Astronauts"

Clinging to my mind's eye - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Stars"

A new watcher opens a hyperdimensional eye - David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Mike Allen "Rattlebox"

Let your eyes be fragmented - David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Kendall Evans and Mike Allen "Rattlebox III"

The clouds are soaked into my eyes - Philip Lamantia "Celestial Estrangement"

With loitering step and quiet eye - Archibald Lampman "In November"

For mortal eyes too proudly coy - Archibald Lampman "June"

With what doubting eyes - Archibald Lampman "A Re-Assurance"

Our wandering steps and wistful eyes - Archibald Lampman "September"

Glimpses of immortal eyes - Archibald Lampman "A Vision of Twilight"

Watches with his antique eyes - Archibald Lampman "Winter"

Whom these wakeful eyes may weep - Walter Savage Landor "Rose Aylmer"

Confronted with these added Eyes - Rickey Laurentiis "Hermaphrodite"

Light breaks over all Eyes - Rickey Laurentiis "Hermaphrodite"

With eyes uplifted to the sky - Emily Lawless "The Third Trumpet: a Ballad of Meath, May 1, 1654"

Given a needle's eye of egress - D.H. Lawrence "He-Goat"

The sunset swims in her eyes - D.H. Lawrence "Study"

Hide our daunted eyes - D. H. Lawrence "Winter-Lull"

But mark the wandering glances of his eye - Miss Mary L. Lawson "The Haunted Heart" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.3, Sept. 1842]

An amazon of thought with sovereign eyes - Emma Lazarus "Chopin"

End up in a thicket of eyes - Aimee Le "Devil Woman Plus the Luckiest Guy in the World"

Sees new worlds in her mirrored eyes - Sammy Lê "Lotus Descends to Visit Nova"

Gazing forever in immortal eyes - Richard Le Gallienne "Desiderium"

And watch with dilettante eyes - Richard Le Gallienne "Saint Charles

The highest etched mark of his eyes - Li-Young Lee "Big Clock"

The perilous lustre of thy eyes - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Bride of Porphyrion"

Whose eyes ensnare your wildest fear - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"

The fine print of our eyes - Philip Levine "Salt and Oil"

Triumphant smile and tragic eyes - Amy Levy "A Minor Poet"

How your dear eyes grew deep - Amy Levy "To Sylvia"

A white eye to the hills - Li Po "Looking at the Moon After Rain" (translated by Florence Ayscough and Amy Lowell)

Had eyes for more than chestnuts and pears - Li Shang-yin "Poem for My Little Boy" transl. by Burton Watson

The blue eyes of my dreams - M.L. Liebler "Last Night Inside My Blood"

Red eyes burning back in the mirror - Gary Copeland Lilley "Alpha Zulu"

The shadows shone with eyes - Vachel Lindsay "A Doll's 'Arabian Nights'"

Give us Darwin's eyes - Vachel Lindsay "The Scientific Aspiration"

Prisms strobe inside your eyes - Angela Liu "Dark Patterns"

Wet eyes hungry for decades-old debts - Angela Liu "The Final Trick"

Eyes the green of kerosene burns - Angela Liu "The Final Trick"

The scintillating eyes of a million strangers - Angela Liu "The Subway Is Another Place to Die"

Through secret eyes of malachite - Audre Lorde "Parting"

Under the eye of a golden moon - Amy Lowell "Clear, with Light Variable Winds"

His eyes are flint to the candles - Amy Lowell "Stravinsky's Three Pieces, 'Grotesques,' for String Quartets: Third Movement"

Watch with grieved eyes - Amy Lowell "Twenty-four Hokku on a Modern Theme"

And had a cabinet behind his eyes - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"

The eye's sudden and narrow saltwater - Canisia Lubrin "In the Middle of the Burning"

Those eyes of wandering fire - Seosamh MacCathmhaoil "A Northern Love Song"

With her one ghost eye - George MacDonald "The Wind and the Moon"

Close your eyes and cease your searches - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "silver birch"

On the closed curtains of my eyes - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "I Watch Swift Pictures"

Rules me with its dozen eyes - Naomi Long Madgett "Clock"

Let me find your guarded eyes - Naomi Long Madgett "Post-Script"

The eye chews the apple - Ruth Madievsky "Electrons"

With eyes of kindness mark - Trebor Mai "The Shepherd's Love" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

By the gleam of his eye - Douglas Malloch "Jim"

An echo chamber behind her eyes - Sally Wen Mao "Resurrection"

From wide cold eyes of fire - Jeannette Marks "Sea Gulls"

With those gray eyes of the sea - Jeannette Marks "These Two"

Primrose with eyes for night - Jeannette Marks "To Some Flowers"

In which eyes burn like star-flame - Jeannette Marks "White Hair"

All dark to mortal eyes - Gwilym Marles aka William Thomas "New Year Thoughts" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

Censured by our eyes - Christopher Marlowe "Hero and Leander"

Until they read in Folly's eyes - Don Marquis "The Sage and the Woman"

Honoured by the eyes that mourn - George Martin "The Drunkard"

And keep the eye of conscience clear - George Martin "W.H. Magee"

That foggy anachronistic lizard eye - David Tomas Martinez "The/A Train"

Into the stones of his eyes - David Tomas Martinez "Trap Music"

Weary vigil with sightless eyes - John Masefield "A Song at Parting"

The savage eyes salt-reddened - John Masefield "The Watch Below"

Sleep for aching eyes - John Masefield "The West Wind"

Eyes full of moonlight - Edgar Lee Masters "So We Grew Together"

The exhausting influence of her eyes - Edgar Lee Masters "Victor Rafolski on Art"

Already eye level to the flocking blackbirds - Adrian Matejka "I Say the Thing for the First Time"

On eyes not yet awake - Theodore Maynard "Dawn"

A million jeering lips and eyes - Theodore Maynard "The Fool"

Immortal courage in your eyes - Theodore Maynard "Ireland"

In mighty lusts of heart and eyes - Theodore Maynard "Pride"

The truths concealed from pedants' eyes - Theodore Maynard "Sight and Insight"

In my eyes a blind apocalypse - Theodore Maynard "Unwed"

Eyes that shamed the light - John McCrae "The Hope of My Heart"

Built to claw an eye from the storm - Campbell McGrath "Charlie Parker (1980)"

Thy sphinx of riddle eyes - Claude McKay "Africa"

Although your eyes are dawning day - Claude McKay "The Barrier"

And watch with wonder-eyes - Claude McKay "I Shall Return"

Afraid of your eyes - Claude McKay "To O.E.A."

Whose third eye brightens the room - Maureen N. McLane "Populating Heaven"

Curves your eyes interpret as ultraviolet - Diane Mehta "Landscape with Double Bow"

Whose eyes have serpent's gleam - Gustav Melby "The Lost Chimes"

Like the trance of eyes awake - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"

Grave eyes craving light - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"

The lord of Mind to guide our eyes - George Meredith "Meditation Under Stars"

Eyes for pirate fellowship - George Meredith "A Preaching from a Spanish Ballad"

His eyes with the day inside - W.S. Merwin "Testimony"

Like eyes ready to be praised - Phillip Metres "My Heart like a Nation"

Hidden behind our sleepy eyes - Charlotte Mew "The Fete"

Only wolves' eyes in the wood - Charlotte Mew "The Fete"

Dreams upon the eyes of white geraniums - Charlotte Mew "Madeleine in Church"

Behind the strangeness of your eyes - Charlotte Mew "On the Road to the Sea"

The key that locks your tired eyes - Charlotte Mew "The Pedlar"

One flame within those mutual eyes - Alice Meynell "Reflections"

Tell you your eyes are mirrors - Rachel Michaud "Crossing Over"

Tell you your eyes are windows - Rachel Michaud "Crossing Over"

So far the eyes of eagle could not reach - Adam Mickiewicz "The Ackerman Steppe" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood

With the dust upon her eyes - Edna St Vincent Millay "Epitaph"

And lifted honest eyes - Edna St Vincent Millay sonnet II from A Few Figs from Thistles

Salt-blue eyes and rust lips - Claire Millikin "Dolls of Tifton, Georgia"

All your quaint enamelled eyes - John Milton "Lycidas"

Till cormorants returned my eyes - N. Scott Momaday "Before an Old Painting of the Crucifixion"

Malice in the eyes of the eagle - N. Scott Momaday "Dichos"

Through morning eyes explores the skies - Harriet Monroe "Love Song"

Tattooed in his eyes - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Day at the Dunes"

In her dagger eyes - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Fannie Lou Hamer"

The tyrant's eye has shrouded - Dugald Moore "Rise, My Love"

Rinsing my eyes of smoke-tears - Hilda Morley "Song of the Terrible"

Heavy with the rain of all eyes - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

A glimpse of such blue-eyed hate - Carol Muske-Dukes "Grief Dream"

Where violence sharpens its eyes - Walter Dean Myers "Earl Prentiss, 39, Motorman"

Meet with unaverted eye - "Nala and Damayanti" (translated by Henry Hart Milman)

In the absence of those eyes - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (2)" transl. by Dennis Daly

Into the channels of your eyes - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (2)" transl. by Dennis Daly

Songs of dark, infinite eyes - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (2)" transl. by Dennis Daly

And dreary dreams from heavy eyes - Nekrasof (Nikolay Nekrasov) "Dream" transl. by John Pollen

Enter my eyes and disappear - Marilyn Nelson "Just Pick a Name"

The infinite plaza of priestly eyes - Pablo Neruda "The Bull" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Your bloody firefly eyes - Pablo Neruda "Furies and Sorrows" translated by Donald D. Walsh

On the shore of your eyes of mourning - Pablo Neruda "In My Sky at Twilight" transl. by W.S. Merwin

With more eyes than a star - Pablo Neruda "Lautreamont Reconquered" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Grass with amaranth eyes - Pablo Neruda "Mexican Serenade" transl. by Alastair Reid

Your pale fifteen-eyed head - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Federico Garcia Lorca" translated by Donald D. Walsh

A chain of eyes and horses - Pablo Neruda "Saddlery" transl by Jack Schmitt

That I divide with my winter eyes - Pablo Neruda "Sonata and Destruction" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Quartz opens its eyes in the snow - Pablo Neruda "Stones from the Sky: II" transl. by James Nolan

Pulled out the eyes of the wheel - Pablo Neruda "The Strike [Canto General]" transl. by Robert Bly

Those eyes sundering the earth - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti

My eyes of avid salt - Pablo Neruda "We Together" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Gave her eyes a sacred light - "New-England's Advance" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]

Clear the eyes with chrysanthemum - Hoa Nguyen "Can't Write White and Asian"

Eyes closed in the glancing - Hoa Nguyen "Swell"

Proud-eyed Apollo's bow is broken - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

Whose eyes show the road - Yone Noguchi "The Poet"

Close our eyes and savor the precious air - Cristina M.R. Norcross "Breathing Peace"

The kindly-beaming eye grow cold and strange - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "Love Not"

The wild sorrow of those dark bright eyes - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "The Undying One, Canto I"

Eyes stony smooth shut in moonlight - Alice Notley "At Night the States"

Combing your hair with my eyes - Naomi Shihab Nye "Smoke"

Whole acres in their eyes - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Tent"

To shield your eyes from the lantern light - Achy Obejas "The Man in White"

At the mercy of a stranger's eyes - Miller Oberman "Taharah"

In my eyes you saw no relief - Cindy Juyoung Ok "To Bear the Ruse"

Fogged lenses on telescopic eyes - dg nanouk okpik "Anthropocene Years"

Eyes lock in deadbolt time - dg nanouk okpik "Twilight Pain"

With dreams inside my eyes - Mary Oliver "Every Dog's Story"

The wind-bird with its white eyes - Mary Oliver "White-eyes"

Bathed my eyes with infinity - James Oppenheim "Self"

Green glass eyes of a porcelain doll - Caitriona O'Reilly "II. The Mermaid (from The Sea Cabinet)"

Dashed a tear in secret from his eye - Caroline F. Orne "A New England Legend" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Adam's eyes would weary the world - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: To See"

Look into his exile eyes - Simon J. Ortiz "From Sand Creek"

Just let me stand here with an open eye - Jacqueline Osherow "Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon, Utah"

With untamed fire their broad eyes glowing - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "The Captured Wild Horse"

The autumn sweetness of thine eye - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To S. C."

With eyes washed in the fire - John Oxenham "Philosopher's Garden"

From childish eyes hide elder woe - M.P. "The Vales" [Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.15 v.I, April 12 1884]

Add light to Phoebus' eyes - Anonymous "A Pagan Epitaph"

An eye from the Creator - Lily Painter "Funk (#49 song)"

The dense eyes of blank harmony - Marigloria Palma "Twilight" (translated by Carina del Valle Schorske)

Veil away your tender eyes - Dorothy Parker "For an Unknown Lady"

Wrap my eyes with linen fair - Dorothy Parker "Portrait of the Artist"

As my soul's eye raised the shadows - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]

But we never averted our eyes - Andre F. Peltier "The Ebullient Signpost"

Empty eyes in vacant sockets - Andre F. Peltier "The Love Theme from Switchblade Sisters"

Burst full and glorious on my wondering eyes - J.G. Percival "Life: a Sonnet" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

Pressing their hundred eyes - Kiki Petrosino "Little Gals"

Eyes vast as the hearts of galaxies - Tim Pratt "A Bestiary: Poor Bahamut"

A thing of smoking arms and ember eyes - Tim Pratt "Carcinodjinn"

Falls in love with those icy eyes of chaos - Jonathan Price "My Infatuation with Chaos"

And a penny for each eye - Nancy Price "Trick or Treat"

To count the eyes of which we dream - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "Necessarily, the camp is the border"

My eyes trespassing in every void and flesh - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "A soliloquy before time"

Things they see with their eyes shut - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "Time"

Awake to see with the eyes of dust - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "With a third eye, I see the catastrophe"

The eye that weeps calamity to see - Quince "Sonnets: By 'Quince': Angels" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)

My sister's eyes looking back at him - Danni Quintos "Possible Reasons My Dad Won't Return to the Philippines"

Stares straight into the camera's eye - Danni Quintos "Rosa de Rosario, 1929"

With a thousand prying eyes - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "An August Night"

The mountains are closing their eyes - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "White Butterflies: Schwartz Wald"

Stares at me through cobwebbed eyes - Nen G. Ramirez "Love poem with a dying cat"

In the eye of golden Day - Theodore H. Rand "The Dragonfly"

Paints the peacock's hundred eyes - Theodore Rand "Song-Waves"

Prisoned in thy melancholy eyes - Henrietta Cordelia Ray "Niobe"

Eyes heavy with tethered salt - Molly Raynor "This Is the Undone Season"

Pressed its exile to our eye - Roger Reeves "Beneath the Perseids"

Fawns with liquid eyes a-flame - Hilda Reid "The Magnanimity of Beasts"

Miles of violence in their eyes - No'u Revilla "Welcome to the Gut House"

Eyes of awed imagination inward bent - Cale Young Rice "Submarine Mountains"

Through the eye of a rock - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

Eel eyes piercing the rivers - Adrienne Rich "Ends of the Earth"

Your shadow with its enormous eyes - Adrienne Rich "A Long Conversation"

Look through history's bloodshot eyes - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"

Eyes hooded in refusal - Adrienne Rich "Veteran's Day"

A shadow with its eyes full - Lola Ridge "Betty"

To trouble rivers with their small fierce eyes - Lola Ridge "Easter Morning"

The august eye of Aldebaran - Lola Ridge "Fame"

Eye acrid as a quince - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 2: The Man from Joppa"

With eyes like angry wasps - Lola Ridge "Firehead part III: Judas 2: Madness in the Field"

Leaving the eye uncertain of their shining - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"

Pouring a brimming fire in their eyes - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"

Within each eye the naked blade - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"

The white eyes of blind gods - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"

A blood-shot eye in the black mask of night - Lola Ridge "Frank Little at Calvary"

Her lit eyes kindling the mob - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"

Eyes like suddenly yielded gates - Lola Ridge "In Harness"

Appraising indolent idol's eye - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"

In the golden distance of your eyes - Lola Ridge "Shadow"

Evades the cold extortion of your eye - Lola Ridge "Sonnet (To E.S.)"

With your eyes bloody as the sunset - Lola Ridge "To Larkin"

In his angered eye that glows - James Whitcombe Riley "The Frog"

The azure eye of some lost boy - James Whitcombe Riley "The Silent Victors"

The prayer of his weary eyes - Charles G.D. Roberts "The Place of His Rest"

Shattered by the light from out those darkened eyes - Madeleine Caron Rock "He Is the Lonely Greatness"

And you with your dreaming eyes - Rennell Rodd "By the South Sea"

Look into the shadow with moon-dazed eyes - Rennell Rodd "In the Coliseum"

She holds a shadowy mirror to her eyes - Rennell Rodd "A Roman Mirror"

With her tearful eyes raised high - Alice Wellington Rollins "Dreamers"

Eyes dazzled see less wisely - Alice Wellington Rollins "Thought"

Your eyes blazing in the moonless night - Levi Romero "the cherry end of your cigarette against the pale sky"

Tread your eyes' infinities - Isaac Rosenberg "The Female God"

Shut my eyes to the edicts - Isaac Rosenberg "Moses"

A word of rescue from the great eyes - Muriel Rukeyser "The Poem as Mask"

Restrained by pure-eyed Sorrow's hand - Thomas Runciman "Miscellaneous Poems I"

The only thing whispering darkness into my mother's eyes - Abdulrazaq Salihu "Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis"

Where waking eyes may follow - Robert Alden Sanborn "To a Child Falling Asleep"

What their eyes cannot - Erika L. Sanchez "All of Us"

Itinerant eyes in expatriate hearts - Sonia Sanchez "A Love Song for Spelman"

Your blinking wonderful eyes - Carl Sandburg "Think About Wheels"

Regrets fly kites in your eyes - Carl Sandburg "Wistful"

Blue diode digits flash in my eyes - Lorraine Schein "Merlin"

All things betrayed to the initiate eye - Friedrich Schiller "The Gods of Greece" transl. not credited

Where the world's eye is hid by cheating night - Friedrich Schiller "To the Fates"

Half so sweet to memory's eye - Jane Johnston Schoolcraft "To the Pine Tree" transl. either by the poet or by her husband

With eyes that cursed her very stones - Frederick George Scott "Dion"

On the blinded eyes that weep - Frederick George Scott "The Everlasting Father"

Through rolling smoke the Demon's eye - Sir Walter Scott "The Field of Waterloo"

Eyes imprisoned behind crimson bars of light - Tobias Seamon "Halos"

broke my eyes into lighthouse shards - Alexandra Seidel "Cerberus, Seeking Lethe"

His eyes blinded shut with night and stars - Alexandra Seidel "Kepler's Music"

Eyes full of himself - Lisa Sewell "King Lear"

For fear to wet a widow's eye - William Shakespeare "Sonnet IX"

Too hot the eye of heaven shines - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XVIII"

The marigold at the sun's eye - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXV"

A closet never pierc'd with crystal eyes - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLVI"

Had eyes to wonder - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CVI"

Merit in the eye of scorn - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXXVIII"

The cog in the eye - Charif Shanahan "Indeterminacy"

Clearly reflected in the dark space of her eyes - Heather Shaw "The Children of the Moon"

The Spirit of wind with lightning eyes - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"

Than any wakened eyes behold - Shelley "The Question"

Where of old our eyes were opened - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: I. In the North"

Have eyes forgotten their tryst to keep? - Taras Shevchenko "Hymn of Exile" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter

Ensorcelling as their unearthly clear eyes - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"

Dark Emperor of hooked face and hungry eye - Joyce Sidman "Dark Emperor"

Eyes of glass hooves of stone - Joyce Sidman "The Gray Ones"

A magic potion to seal their eyes shut - Taije Silverman "Armageddon"

See better with eyes closed - Charles Simic "Caged Fortuneteller"

Eyes full of the sky's terror - Charles Simic "Winter Sunset"

And in our eyes, we see empty mirrors - Courtney Skaggs "The Little Death After the Apocalypse"

A generator station opens its eye - Jake Skeets "Let There Be Coal"

Whose eyes have looked on Lethe - Clark Ashton Smith "Ave Atque Vale"

Throned in Medusa's eyes - Clark Ashton Smith "Medusa"

Beneath the star's unheeding eyes - Clark Ashton Smith "The Song of a Comet"

To no mortal eye revealed - Effie Smith "If Christ Should Come"

To feed your ravenous eye - Patricia Smith "What Betsy Has to Say"

To stare fire in the eye - Tracy K. Smith "Soulwork"

Dance out a round on the dreamt eye of water - Marin Sorescu "Fountains in the sea" transl. by Seamus Heaney

Closed eyes in dark cellars - Marin Sorescu "Paintings" transl. by Gabriela Dragnea

In your bleak eyes is the memory - Leonora Speyer "Gulls"

Stole his eyes because they shone - Leonora Speyer "Kleptomaniac"

Bleak winter in their frosty eyes - Leonora Speyer "Sand-Pipings: For a Spring Day"

Companion to your grieving eyes - Ssu-k'ung Shu "The Rebellion Over, I See Off a Friend Who Is Returning North" transl. by Burton Watson

A red eye at the telescope's far tapering - A.E. Stallings "Eurydice's Footnote"

Puts the doubloons over my eyes - Frank Stanford "The Mind Reader"

Glance of the eye and sweetheart's sigh - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Diamond Wedding"

Would turn the eyes of Nero green - Edward S. Steele "Armenia Immolata"

Before his doom-bewildered eyes - George Sterling "Duandon"

To watch with compensating eyes - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"

Ablink like dragon-eyes - George Sterling "Night-Sentries"

For the eye of the young alligator - Wallace Stevens "Nomad Exquisite"

Black as bee stripes with honey in my eyes - Kelly Stewart "The Bandit King"

With eye of wild and flashing crimson - Alfred B. Street "The Loon: Tupper's Lake"

With his grim eyes watching the course - Arthur Stringer "The Pilot"

Frost upon the eyes of flowers - Muriel Stuart "Leda"

Eyes that keep eternal watch, unshaken, strong, and true - Alan Sullivan "A Question"

Of eyes parched with desire - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 20: Krishna Growing Up" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Gone wandering with my eyes - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 56: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

The addiction of those eyes - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 73: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

These two eyes are very nimble thieves - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 78: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

My eyes are dying of thirst - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 152: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Eyes full of dawning day - Algernon Swinburne "First Footsteps"

For the rapture of storm-spent eyes - Algernon Swinburne "Insularum Ocelle"

Eyes too proud to thank the sky and sea - Algernon Swinburne "Three Faces: I. Ventimiglia"

Great as mortal eye and brain encompass - Carmen Sylva "A Dream"

Cruel dawn, with icy, deathlike eyes and hollow voice - Carmen Sylva "Rest"

With starlight in your eyes - Arthur Symons "Stella Maris"

Filled with the eyes of their wings - Milo K. Szyszka "A Tale of Moths and Home (of Bones and Breathing) (of Extrinsic Restrictive Lung Disease)"

Dreams beat against the inner eye - Sonya Taaffe "The Chymical Marriage"

With sharp machete eyes - Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie "Forced Entry"

Lightning's thousand sulfur eyes - Dorothea Tanning "All Hallow's Eve"

Measured by an eye that's hidden above - Keith Taylor "Landscape of Fear"

Just flitting around the eye's corner - Keith Taylor "Marginalia for a Natural History"

Eyes that love you - Sara Teasdale "Barter"

my eyes opaque with mistrust - Laura Theis "Some Pointers on Dating a Were-Hare"

The photograph is married to the eye - Dylan Thomas "Our eunuch dreams"

Washed the eyes of the stars - Edward Thomas "The Trumpet"

Who trained his eye to look beneath - Henry David Thoreau "Free Love"

Wide as range of eye or mind - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: V. The Sea.--Safety"

Free as range of eye or mind - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: V. The Sea.--Safety"

Thrice turn round and shut your eyes - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: V. The Sea.--Safety"

Look coldly at us with their frostbitten eyes - Sarah Titus "The Angels Sip Manhattans Wearing the Faces of Our Dead"

Mine eyes did everywhere behold - Thomas Traherne "Wonder"

Garlands splashing over the eyes of satyrs - Iris Tree "[Ah! the spring, sudden, surprising]"

Eyes that prick the darkness - Iris Tree "[Pity the slain that laid away their lives]"

The drilling eyes of reptiles and men - Emma Trelles "Dear Sister"

The fond beaming of a northern eye - H.T. Tuckerman "To the Violet" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Eyes forever cast toward Rome - Devin S. Turk "Statue of David with Top Surgery Scars"

The street with its pitiless eyes - Louis Untermeyer "Any City"

From those enkindled eyes - Louis Untermeyer "Dorothy Dances"

With abrupt and visionary eyes - Louis Untermeyer "Landscapes"

Lift your dark eyes dreaming - Una Urquhart "An Old Tale of Three"

A fire of my expectation and the brightening of an eye - Gustavo Alberto Garcia Vaca "Had Been There"

Observe history in your eyes - A. Van Jordan "Old Boy"

The argent eyes of Its mute mysteries - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Silence" transl. by Alma Strettell

My scalded eyes no longer brook - "Verses for an Album" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]

Who thought a dark eye could save you - Karen Volkman "A Light Says Why"

spent my days staring into the eye of the Baltic - Asiya Wadud "attention as a form of ethics [excerpt]"

From the corner of my indolent eye - Diane Wakoski "Snowy Owl Goddess"

From my pen's eye - Derek Walcott "A Letter from the Old Guard"

With scarlet moons for eyes - Derek Walcott "White Magic"

Raised above the Morning's eye - Charles William Wallace "A Mortal"

Swept by the eyes of my soul - Charles William Wallace "My Defeat"

The eyes from their sockets of fire - Charles William Wallace "There's a Laugh"

These eyes that wake to weep - Thomas Warton Jr. "Ode to Sleep"

Front Death and Danger with a level eye - "The Watchword" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.2, Feb. 1862]

Retrospect in Time's reverted eyes - William Watson "Autumn"

Sweep the dust of aeons in our eyes - William Watson "History"

Flake of night drifting in the eye of day - William Watson "The Raven's Shadow"

Look at us with eyes that missed the roses - Edith Wharton "Elegy"

With new eyes I saw them - John Hall Wheelock "A Leave-Taking II"

All the old wonder of your eyes - John Hall Wheelock "Phantom"

The adoring eyes of thought - John Hall Wheelock "The Poet Tells of His Love"

My eyes are sore from seeing - Allison Benis White "Description of Symptoms"

Those Venuses in your eyes - Arisa White "Curious and Counting"

Charms her eyes to smiling - Roberta Hill Whiteman "Lines for Marking Time"

Nor look through the eyes of the dead - Walt Whitman "Song of Myself"

With frozen heart and tearless eyes - Helen Hay Whitney "Flowers of Ice"

Your false eyes closed forever - Helen Hay Whitney "The Forgiveness"

With little rainbow rifts of seraph's eyes - Helen Hay Whitney "The Golden Fruit"

Nor even with your eyes hold mine - Helen Hay Whitney "In Extremis"

Your eyes that seem to cast starlight - Amie Whittemore "The Alien Epistles, Letters 1-3"

Foul of mouth and evil-eyed - John Greenleaf Whittier "Barclay of Ury"

If the eye must fail of light - John Greenleaf Whittier "My Birthday"

By the quivering lid of an averted eye - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Love's Language"

Emptied houses turned shuttered eyes to the sea - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: Low"

Traveller, turn a mournful eye - Iolo Aneurin Williams "A Monument (After an Ancient Fashion)"

By virtue of brown eyes turning back the seasons - William Carlos Williams "A Celebration"

The wild chill in their eyes - William Carlos Williams "A Goodnight"

Eyes of hope's fair assurance - William Carlos Williams "El Romancero"

Unrelated to jealous ears and eyes - William Carlos Williams "These"

Instantly down the mists of my eyes - William Carlos Williams "The Wanderer"

Her voice entered at my eyes - William Carlos Williams "The Wanderer"

Eyes alone leave no trace - Katie Willingham "Terrifying Robot Update"

A green eye taking in the storm - Elizabeth Willis "Ephemeral Stream"

My eyes are the backs of moons - Keith S. Wilson "Impression of a Rib"

His eyes a web of sleep - Yvor Winters "The Moonlight"

Under oak trees and watchful eyes of wizards - Michelle Wirth "Campus"

In her upturned eye of fire - William Wordsworth "The Kitten and the Falling Leaves"

Interest unborrowed from the eye - William Wordsworth "On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye"

What resides behind your eyes - J. Deery Wray "Eidetic"

Cyclotron eyes focusing on the deep - Charles Wright "The Great Blue Heron and the Tree of Night"

Rub a little dust upon your eyes - Elinor Wylie "The Crooked Stick"

Making blind moons of all your eyes - Elinor Wylie "Escape"

Have stolen the falcon's eyes - Elinor Wylie "A Proud Lady"

Reading time in the eyes of alley cats - Emanuel Xavier "Americano"

All of my eye's mistakes - Jenny Xie "Melancholia"

The earth closing its one good eye - Wendy Xu "Praxis"

The mournful wonder of his eyes - W.B. Yeats "Cuchulain's Fight with the Sea"

Falling on dream-dimmed eyes - W.B. Yeats "He tells of a Valley full of Lovers"

Answer only with my eyes - Jane Yolen "Bird Watcher"

Not tenderness in the eye - C. Dale Young "The Second Fallacy"

Had bathed my burning eyes with milk - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"

The burning eyes of a tiger barred - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"

What else a storm's eye sees - Jordan Zandi "Chamber Music"

With funeral in my eyes - Matthew Zapruder "Twenty Poems for Noelle"

The eye of the world opens - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

The eye of the world opens and shuts - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

In the mind's cool barely open eye - Cynthia Zarin "Rainy Day Fugue"

That pair of doubting eyes - Zheng Min "Death of a Poet #4" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf

The eye is a frozen lotus pond - Zheng Min "Death of a Poet #17" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf

Leaves us to eat with our eyes - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 9" transl. by Katherine Silver

Turned to dust in my eye - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 15" transl. by Katherine Silver



Views it with her double-eye - Aditi Machado "Experiment with Aspic"


Under an evil-eyed fig tree - Zaina Alsous "Universe in which My Father Is a Poet"


An eyebrow in the ocean - Rindon Johnson "There Is a Black Fly in Your Chardonnay"


His own eyeful against the other's eyeful - Lola Ridge "Emma Goldman"


His eyelashes wept blood - Jami "Salaman and Absal: The Burning of Absal" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald

Empty nest of eyelashes & dandelions - Molly Raynor "This Is the Undone Season"

Penitent as eyelashes - Emily van Kley "Small Traffic"


Peer into the craters of an eyeless god - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 1: Before Dawn"


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Eye-patches and clockwork hands - Roz Kaveney "Twelve Steampunk Sonnets: Things Lost"


Alloys of eyesore and starlight - Leonard Cohen "O Wife Unmasked"


Fire-eyed wraiths of daffodils - Elinor Jenkins "The Lovers' Walk"

The green-eyed dog upright on his throne - Maureen N. McLane "Populating Heaven"

Hawk-eyed hunters of solace - Blaize Kelly Strothers "The West Is Dead"

Weave rafts for knife-eyed brides - Dorsey Craft "The Pirate Anne Bonny Says Her Prayers"

In this field of tens and one-eyed jacks - Joy Harjo "A Winning Hand"

The one-eyed vulture in the glass - Angela Liu "The Final Trick"

Yearning for the pale-eyed star - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The Song of the Watcher"

Threading time's slit-eye needle - Cynthia Zarin "The Muse of History: III. The Gone World"

From the smoke rise the flame's snake-eyes - John Freeman "The Chair"

In winter's spider-eyed light - Judy Jordan "Prologue"

Wide-eyed as Athena's wired owl - Diane Raptosh "American Amnesiac [Is it possible to let the sleeping life seep into day--]

Walks wild-eyed and cries to Time - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"


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