Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume II. Love. 1904. | | | | IV. Wooing and Winning | | “My eyes! how I love you” | | John Godfrey Saxe (1816–1887) |
| | | MY eyes! how I love you, | |
| You sweet little dove you! | |
| There ’s no one above you, | |
| Most beautiful Kitty. | |
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| So glossy your hair is, | 5 |
| Like a sylph’s or a fairy’s; | |
| And your neck, I declare, is | |
| Exquisitely pretty. | |
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| Quite Grecian your nose is, | |
| And your cheeks are like roses, | 10 |
| So delicious—O Moses! | |
| Surpassingly sweet! | |
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| Not the beauty of tulips, | |
| Nor the taste of mint-juleps, | |
| Can compare with your two lips, | 15 |
| Most beautiful Kate! | |
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| Not the black eyes of Juno, | |
| Nor Minerva’s of blue, no, | |
| Nor Venus’s, you know, | |
| Can equal your own! | 20 |
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| O, how my heart prances, | |
| And frolics and dances, | |
| When their radiant glances | |
| Upon me are thrown! | |
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| And now, dearest Kitty, | 25 |
| It ’s not very pretty, | |
| Indeed it ’s a pity, | |
| To keep me in sorrow! | |
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| So, if you ’ll but chime in, | |
| We ’ll have done with our rhymin’, | 30 |
| Swap Cupid for Hymen, | |
| And be married to-morrow. | | | | |
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