| A. E. Housman (1859–1936). A Shropshire Lad. 1896. |
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| XV. Look not in my eyes, for fear |
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| LOOK not in my eyes, for fear | |
| Thy 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 | 5 |
| Spent in star-defeated sighs, | |
| But why should you as well as I | |
| Perish? gaze not in my eyes. | |
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| A Grecian lad, as I hear tell, | |
| One that many loved in vain, | 10 |
| Looked into a forest well | |
| And never looked away again. | |
| There, when the turf in springtime flowers, | |
| With downward eye and gazes sad, | |
| Stands amid the glancing showers | 15 |
| A jonquil, not a Grecian lad. | |
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