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by Robert Seymour Bridges (1844 - 1930)

I love my lady's eyes
Language: English 
I love my lady's eyes 
Above the beauties rare 
She most is wont to prize, 
Above her sunny hair, 
And all that face to face 
Her glass repeats of grace. 

For those are still the same 
To her and all that see : 
But oh ! her eyes will flame 
When they do look on me : 
And so above the rest 
I love her eyes the best. 

Now say
  [Say, say! saith the music] 
Who likes my song? 
I knew you by your eyes, 
That rest on nothing long, 
And have forgot surprise ; 
And stray
  [Stray, O stray! saith the music] 
as mine will stray, 
The while my love 's away. 

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Text Authorship:

  • by Robert Seymour Bridges (1844 - 1930), "Song", appears in The Shorter Poems of Robert Bridges, first published 1890 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Frederic Field Bullard (1864 - 1904), "I love my lady's eyes", <<1904 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir (1852 - 1924), "Say, O say! saith the music", op. 43 (Three songs) no. 3 (1891), published 1896-1897 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2009-01-13
Line count: 22
Word count: 109

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