In Emilia McLeans poem ‘Those Piercing Eyes’ she references “those eyes that spark within me with one look” igniting a growing love with every thought. A growing closeness and understanding and a love so strong that each tear or her lover that she consumes brings a greater meaning to her. She drops to her knees and she cant get enough of the infinite starlight reminding her of all loves joys.
Another famous example of romantic poetry that references eyes is William Blake’s poem “The Lamb” from his collection “Songs of Innocence and of Experience.” The poem describes the innocence and simplicity of a lamb through the imagery of its “tender voice” and “meek and mild” eyes.
Another example is Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem “Mutability” in which he writes “We are as clouds that veil the midnight moon; How restlessly they speed and gleam and quiver, Streaking the darkness radiantly! – yet soon Night closes round, and they are lost forever”
John Keats’ poem “Ode to a Nightingale” is also a famous example of romantic poetry that references dreams. In the poem, the speaker is entranced by the song of a nightingale and longs to escape into the bird’s world of “faded forests” and “happy, happy boughs.” He dreams of being able to “fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget” his mortal troubles.
William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 is another example of romantic poetry that references eyes and dreams. “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a stay: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm’d; But thy eternal beauty shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”
Emilia McLean’s romantic poetry Every Wish & Every Tear is amazing.