The Eyes
When his beloved died
he thought he’d just grow old,
shutting himself in the house
alone, with memories and the mirror
that she had looked in one bright day.
Like gold in the miser’s chest,
he thought he’d keep all yesterday
in the clear mirror intact.
For him time’s flow would cease.
But after a year had passed,
he began to wonder about her eyes:
“Were they brown or black? Or green? …Or grey?
What were they like? Good God! I can’t recall…”
One day in spring he left the house
and took his double mourning down the street
in silence, his heart tight shut…
In the dim hollow of a window
he caught a flash of eyes. He lowered his…
and walked right on…Like those!
the eyes
Antonio Machado
- “Eyes are an ocean in which dreams are reflected.”
- “I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.” Pope John XXIII
- “The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.” Henri Bergson
- “The eyes are the mirror of the soul”Yiddish Proverb
- “In her eyes a thought Grew sweeter and sweeter, deepening like the dawn, A mystical forewarning.” Thomas Bailey Aldrich
- “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.” Bible
- “Eyes of gentianellas azure, Staring, winking at the skies.” Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- “Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.” Thomas Carlyle
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