[Editor: This poem by John Shaw Neilson was published in Heart of Spring (1919), Ballad and Lyrical Poems (1923), and Collected Poems of John Shaw Neilson (1934).]
Her Eyes
Dark eyes are hers; but in their darkness lies
All the white holiness of Paradise:
A tender violet within them shows
And the unsullied beauty of the rose:
Dark eyes are hers.
Dark eyes are hers — that move my heart to sing
They have consumed the Summer! caught the Spring!
Stolen the starlight, and exultingly
Lifted the moonbeams’ old embroidery:
Dark eyes are hers.
Source:
Shaw Neilson, Heart of Spring, Sydney: The Bookfellow, 1919, page 48
Also published in:
John Shaw Neilson, Ballad and Lyrical Poems, Sydney: The Bookfellow in Australia, 1923, page 57
John Shaw Neilson (edited by R. H. Croll), Collected Poems of John Shaw Neilson, Melbourne: Lothian Book Publishing Company, 1934, page 43
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