She took a sheet and handled the reed and wrote therewith these verses, "I see all power of sleep from eyes of me hath flown; * Say, did thy parting teach these eyne on wake to wone?
In water pure his form shall greet your eyne ✿ When fails the bowl nor need ye drink of wine.
An thou wouldst bless these eyne with sight of thee ✿ One day on earth, I crave none other sight: Think not another could possess my mind ✿ Nor length nor breadth for other love I find.
FN#435] Forget my lids of eynetheir sleep for magic eyes of him; * Naught since he fared but drowsy charms and languorous air I see.
When Allah caused the morning to morrow, the two hosts were aligned in line and their thousands fixed their eyne and the troops stood looking one at other.
This said, adowne he looked to the ground, To have returnd, but dazed were his eyne 600 Through passing brightnesse, which did quite confound His feeble sence and too exceeding shyne.
Scarce could they keep their watter at the seight, Sa micke did the King their glowran eyne delight.
The cat, with eyne of burning coal, Now crouches from (before) the mouse's hole.
The wemen alss he wysyt at the last; And so on ane hys eyne he can to cast, In the south gait, of fassoun fresche and fayr.
Apon a day, to the kyrk as scho went, Wallace hyr saw, as he his eyne can cast.
Amang Sotheroun full besyly he past; On athir side his eyne he gan to cast, Quhar lordis lay, and had thair lugeyng maid.
There perhaps he saw the cat, with "eyne of burning coal, crouching 'fore the mouse's hole.
And when he recovered he cried, "By Allah, O Muhjat al-Kulub and Oh of eyne the coolth, do thou repeat to me what thou hast said.
But chiefly by his face and mien, That were so fair to view; His flaxen locks that sweetly curl'd, 15 And eyne of lovely blue.
A soft-sided damsel of slenderest waist * Her arrows of eyne on my heart hath plied?
But grant me still return of dearest her these eyne may see.
For naught to us is sorer than the jealousy of men * And the backbiter's eyne that with calumny affray.
Then she wept and recited these couplets, "The land of lamping moon is bare and drear; * O eyne of me pour forth the brimming tear!
Ah, would they had returned to me in covenant of faith * An they return perhaps restore of past these eyne may see.
But to my eyne he looks as if he had been called, and was going.
I never set eyne upon her till half an hour ago on th' staithes, and maybe I'll niver see her again.
Thou'rt Elate: so bless our eyne with union and delight.
A Káfir youth like fullest moon in darkness hands her round * Whose eyne are strongest cause of sin by him inspiritèd.
And see I sundry lovers tear out others' eyne * For the brown mole beneath that jetty pupil shown, Then why do censors blame me for one all a mole?
In water pure his form shall greet youreyne * When fails the bowl nor need ye drink of wine.
An thou wouldst bless these eyne with sight of thee * One day on earth, I crave none other sight: Think not another could possess my mind * Nor length nor breadth for other love I find.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "eyne" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
