clear-pointed

Updated: June 12, 2025

Alas! those eyes, so grave, so luminous, so steadfast: "Eyes not down-dropt, not over-bright, but fed With the clear-pointed flame of chastity," eyes wherein dwelt "thought folded over thought," what painter need ever hope to copy them? And still she never dreamed how dear she had grown to me. She never knew how the very air seemed purer to me because she breathed it.

Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards - In the Days of My Youth