<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=355181" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Eyes</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lucy, what do you espy<br>In the cast in Jenny's eye<br>That should you to laughter move?<br>I far other feelings prove.<br>When on me she does advance<br>Her good-natured countenance,<br>And those eyes which in their way<br>Saying much, so much would say,<br>They to me no blemish seem,<br>Or as none I them esteem;<br>I their imperfection prize<br>Above other clearer eyes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Eyes do not as jewels go<br>By the brightness and the show,<br>But the meanings which surround them,<br>And the sweetness shines around them.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Isabel's are black as jet,<br>But she cannot that forget,<br>And the pains she takes to show them<br>Robs them of the praise we owe them.<br>Ann's, though blue, affected fall;<br>Kate's are bright, and fierce withal;<br>And the sparklers of her sister<br>From ill-humour lose their lustre.<br>Only Jenny's eyes we see,<br>By their very plainness, free<br>From the vices which do smother<br>All the beauties of the other.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Charles+Lamb">Charles Lamb</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=355181" data-title="Eyes de Charles Lamb" data-description="Lucy, what do you espy In the cast in Jenny's eye That should you to laughter move? I far other feelings prove. When on me she does advance Her good-natured countenance, And those eyes which in their way Saying much, so much would say, They to me ..."></div> </div> </div>

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