Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs;
make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes
Write sorrow in the bosom of the earth.

- William Shakespeare

from 'King Richard II'

He said, "I hunt for haddocks' eyes
Among the heather bright
And work them into waistcoat-buttons
In the silent night."

- Lewis Carroll

from 'Through the Looking Glass'

I never nurs'd a dear gazelle,
To glad me with its soft black eye,
But when it came to know me well,
And love me, it was sure to die!

- Thomas Moore

from 'Lalla Rookh. The Fire-Worshippers'

And there the lion's ruddy eyes
Shall flow with tears of gold

- William Blake

'Night' from 'Songs of Innocence'

It is an ancient Mariner
And he stoppeth one of three.
'By thy long grey beard and glittering eye,
Now wherefore stopp'st thou me?'

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'

Towers, and battlements it sees
Bosom'd high in tufted trees,
Where perhaps some beauty lies,
The cynosure of neighbouring eyes.

-John Milton

'L'Allegro'

Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike,
And, like the sun, they shine on all alike.

- Alexander Pope

'The Rape of the Lock'

Oh, I am very weary,
Though tears no longer flow;
My eyes are tired of weeping,
My heart is sick of woe.

- Ann Bronte

'Appeal'

First, are you our sort of a person?
Do you wear
A glass eye, false teeth or a crutch,
A brace or a hook,
Rubber breasts or a rubber crotch?

- Sylvia Plath

'The applicant'