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“eyes” across the centuries

Bar length = percentage of poems in that cohort whose critique surfaced this theme. Click an era to focus the poem list below (click again to show samples from all eras).

pre-1500 1 / 30 BCE 0 / 12 1500s 1 / 10 1550s 5 / 91 1600s 5 / 177 1650s 4 / 59 1700s 0 / 35 1750s 1 / 164 1800s 6 / 687 1850s 6 / 946 1900s 25 / 1124 1950s 1 / 15

Poems in 1900s · 25 with this theme Show all eras

A Cry

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A Cry

by Sara Teasdale · English

8 August 1884 - 29 January 1933 (~49)

All armies are the same

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All armies are the same

by Ernest Hemingway · English

21 July 1899 - 2 July 1961 (~62)

An Ancient Gesture

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An Ancient Gesture

by Edna St. Vincent Millay · English

22 February 1892 - 19 October 1950 (~58)

Autumn Evening

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Autumn Evening

by Ford Madox Hueffer · English

17 December 1873 - 26 June 1939 (~66)

Cradle Song

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Cradle Song

by A. A. Milne · English

18 January 1882 - 31 January 1956 (~74)

Dear heart, why will you use me so?

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Dear heart, why will you use me so?

by James Joyce · English

2 February 1882 - 13 January 1941 (~59)

Eyes That Last I Saw in Tears

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Eyes That Last I Saw in Tears

by T. S. Eliot · English

26 September 1888 - 4 January 1965 (~77)

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Figure

by Maxwell Bodenheim · English

26 May 1892 - 6 February 1954 (~62)

Fishmonger

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Fishmonger

by Marsden Hartley · English

4 January 1877 - 2 September 1943 (~66)

Gray Eyes

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Gray Eyes

by Nora Hopper Chesson · English

2 January 1871 - 14 April 1906 (~35)

Green

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Green

by D. H. Lawrence · English

11 September 1885 - 2 March 1930 (~45)

Her Dark Eyes Sparkle

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Her Dark Eyes Sparkle

by Charles Williams · English

20 September 1886 - 15 May 1945 (~59)

Her Eyes

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Her Eyes

by John Crowe Ransom · English

30 April 1888 - 3 July 1974 (~86)

Lachrymae Christi

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Lachrymae Christi

by Hart Crane · English

21 July 1899 - 27 April 1932 (~33)

Moment Fugue

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Moment Fugue

by Hart Crane · English

21 July 1899 - 27 April 1932 (~33)

O make me a mask

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O make me a mask

by Dylan Thomas · English

27 October 1914 - 9 November 1953 (~39)

Requiem for a Modern Croesus

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Requiem for a Modern Croesus

by Lew R. Sarett · English

16 May 1888 - 17 August 1954 (~66)

Tattoo

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Tattoo

by Wallace Stevens · English

2 October 1879 - 2 August 1955 (~76)

Tavern

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Tavern

by Edna St. Vincent Millay · English

22 February 1892 - 19 October 1950 (~58)

The Faery Fool

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The Faery Fool

by Nora Hopper Chesson · English

2 January 1871 - 14 April 1906 (~35)

The Female God

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The Female God

by Isaac Rosenberg · English

25 November 1890 - 1 April 1918 (~28)

The Moth That God Made Blind

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The Moth That God Made Blind

by Hart Crane · English

21 July 1899 - 27 April 1932 (~33)

The Sentry

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The Sentry

by Wilfred Owen · English

18 March 1893 - 4 November 1918 (~25)

To One Unknown

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To One Unknown

by Helen Dudley · English

3 June 1886 - 1932 (~46)

When you are dead

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When you are dead

by Edna St. Vincent Millay · English

22 February 1892 - 19 October 1950 (~58)

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