Look not in my eyes, for fear
Thy mirror true the sight I see,
And there you find your face too clear
And love it and be lost like me.
One the long nights through must lie
Spent in star-defeated sighs,
But why should you as well as I
Perish? gaze not in my eyes.
A Grecian lad, as I hear tell,
One that many loved in vain,
Looked into a forest well
And never looked away again.
There, when the turf in springtime flowers,
With downward eye and gazes sad,
Stands amid the glancing showers
A jonquil, not a Grecian lad.
Look Not In My Eyes, For Fear
Alfred Edward Housman
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Poem topics: I love you, away, fear, lost, mirror, never, sad, star, long, clear, hear, face, true, gaze, perish, love, I miss you, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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