Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Francis William Bourdillon

British Poet and Translator

"The mind has a thousand eyes, and the heart but one; yet the light of a whole life dies when love is done."

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

"The light of a whole life dies when love is gone."

"The night has a thousand eyes, and the day but one; yet the light of the bright world dies with the dying sun."

"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"