J. C. Squire, ed. A Book of Women’s Verse. 1921.
By Katherine Philips (Orinda) (16311664)To my Excellent Lucasia, on our Friendship
I
Crown’d my felicity,
When I could say without a crime,
I am not thine, but thee.
So that the world believ’d
There was a soul the motions kept;
But they were all deceiv’d.
To motion, such was mine:
But never had Orinda found
A soul till she found thine;
And guides my darkned breast:
For thou art all that I can prize,
My joy, my life, my rest.
To mine compar’d can be:
They have but pieces of the earth,
I’ve all the world in thee.
And no false fear controul,
As innocent as our design,
Immortal as our soul.