The Night Has a Thousand Eyes by Francis William Bourdillon. Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. 1895. A Victorian Anthology, 1837-1895

Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895.

The Night Has a Thousand Eyes

Francis William Bourdillon (b. 1852)


THE NIGHT has a thousand eyes,
And the day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun.

The mind has a thousand eyes,	5
And the heart but one;
Yet the light of a whole life dies
When love is done.