The Night Has a Thousand Eyes
by Francis William Bourdillon
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,
And the heart but one:
Yet the light of a whole life dies
When love is done.
I never read much poetry and didn’t have any interest in writing poetry until a little over a year ago, but I did hear or briefly see a handful of poems I liked. For instance:
A Red Red Rose by Robert Burns
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe
Annabelle Lee by Edgar Allan Poe
And I liked this verse:
“To see the world in a grain of sand
and a heaven in a wild flower
hold infinity in your hand
and eternity in an hour”
William Blake