dots-menu
×

Home  »  The Book of Elizabethan Verse  »  William Browne (c. 1590–c. 1645)

William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907.

In Obitum M S, X. Maij, 1614

William Browne (c. 1590–c. 1645)

MAY! Be thou never graced with birds that sing,

Nor Flora’s pride!

In thee all flowers and roses spring,

Mine only died.