feast one's eyes on

Idioms  

1. Be delighted or gratified by the sight of, as in I'm feasting my eyes on this new sculpture—it's wonderful. This metaphoric expression may have been originated by Shakespeare, who used it in Sonnet 47: “With my love's picture then my eye doth feast.”

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Example Sentences

She was a sight to feast one's eyes on, and until the last moment was under a cloud of sail while her funnel belched black smoke.

From Sweetapple Cove by Van Schaick, George

I did not want to read; it was enough to feast one's eyes on their backs, to take down a volume and handle it my old green-jacketed Browning, for instance.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-29 by Various