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Eye colour is a polygenic phenotypic trait in many animals. In humans, the pigmentation of the iris varies from light brown to black, depending on the concentration of melanin in the iris.
Quotes
[edit]- Brownish color and black eyes are more closely related to the sublime, blue eyes and blond color to the beautiful.
- I Kant, Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime (1764)
Dark eyes
[edit]- Sweet poets of the gentle antique line,
That made the hue of beauty all eterne,
And gave earth’s melodies a silver turn,—
Where did you steal your art so right divine?—
Sweetly ye memoried every golden twine
Of your ladies’ tresses:—teach me how to spurn
Death’s lone decaying and oblivion stern
From the sweet forehead of a lady mine.
The golden clusters of enamouring hair
Glow’d in poetic pictures sweetly well;—
Why should not tresses dusk, that are so fair
On the live brow, have an eternal spell
In poesy?—dark eyes are dearer far
Than orbs that mock the hyacinthine-bell.- J. H. Reynolds, The Garden of Florence (1821)
- Fill high the bowl with Samian wine!
Our virgins dance beneath the shade—
I see their glorious black eyes shine; ...- Lord Byron, "The Isles of Greece", Don Juan, Canto 3
- Although her eyes be not of blue,
Nor fair her locks, like English lasses,
How far its own expressive hue
The languid azure eye surpasses!Prometheus-like, from heaven she stole
The fire that through those silken lashes
In darkest glances seems to roll,
From eyes that cannot hide their flashes: ...- Lord Byron, "The Girl of Cadiz" (1832)
- I turning saw, throned on a flowery rise,
One sitting on a crimson scarf unroll’d;
A queen, with swarthy cheeks and bold black eyes,
Brow-bound with burning gold.- Alfred Tennyson, "A Dream of Fair Women" (1833, 1842)
- The Musmee has brown velvet eyes
Curtain’d with satin, sleepily;
You wonder if those lids would rise
The newest, strangest sight to see;
But when she chatters, laughs, or plays
Kôto, biwa, or samisen,
No jewel gleams with brighter rays
Than flash from those dark lashes then.- Sir Edwin Arnold, "The Musmee",
Daily Alta California, 84:32 (1 February 1891)
- Sir Edwin Arnold, "The Musmee",
- O sweet brown hat, brown hair, brown eyes,
Down-dropp’d brown eyes, so tender!- Thomas Ashe, "Meet We no Angels, Pansie?"
- O dark brown eyes! O tangles of dark hair!
- J. A. Symonds Jr., "Venice"
- ‘Eyes so black they draw one trembling near,
Brown eyes, caverns flooded with a tear,
Cloudless eyes, blue eyes so windy clear—’
‘O look at me!’- Thomas Sturge Moore, "A Duet",
The Vinedresser, and Other Poems (1899)
- Thomas Sturge Moore, "A Duet",
Light eyes
[edit]- See also: Blue eyes
- And how she’d open her green eyes,
As if in some immense surprise,- Walter de la Mare, "Miss Loo",
The Listeners, and Other Poems (1912)
- Walter de la Mare, "Miss Loo",
- So stir the fire and pour the wine,
And let those sea-green eyes divine
Pour their love-madness into mine:- Mortimer Collins, "To F. C." (1875)
- She was a sharp-jawed, pout-lipped beauty and her eyes were green as scum.
- Michael Moorcock, The Golden Barge (1979)