Quotes from Francis William Bourdillon

The mind has a thousand eyes.

The light of a whole life dies When love is gone.

Man only goeth a godless way In his dark and smoky babels, Or builds him prisons wherein to pray, And serves not God but tables.

The mind has a thousand eyes. And the heart but one; Yet the life of a whole life dies When love is done.

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.

The Night has a thousand eyes, The Day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun.

So, often in the course Of life's few fleeting years, A single pleasure costs The soul a thousand tears.