Look Not In My Eyes

Text by A. E. Housman

A Shropshire Lad Song Collection

"Look Not In My Eyes" is a song by Beverly Benjamin Cole. It is the tenth in a set of eleven poems from A. E. Housman's "A Shropshire Lad". If interested in sheet music, please email jackmor@umich.edu

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Look not in my eyes, for fear
They 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.

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