ligeia

• the expression of the eyes of ligeia! how for long hours have i pondered upon it! how have i, through the whole of a midsummer night, struggled to fathom it! what was it -- that something more profound than the well of democritus -- which lay within the pupils of my beloved ? what was it ? i was possessed with a passion to discover those eyes! those large, those shining, those divine orbs! they became to me twin stars of leda, and i to them the devoutest of astrologers. not for a moment was the unfathomable meaning of their glance, by day or night, absent from my soul
  
  (bkz: edgar allen poe)