William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910.
To the Lady MayAurelian Townsend (fl. 16011643)
Y
Only the drawing of the mouth awry;
For breasts and cheeks and forehead we may see,
Parts wanting motion, all stand smiling by:
Heaven hath no mouth, and yet is said to smile
After your style:
No more hath earth, yet that smiles too,
Just as you do.
Such smiles as from your face proceed:
The sun must lend his golden beams,
Soft winds their breath, green trees their shade,
Sweet fields their flowers, clear springs their streams,
Ere such another smile be made:
But these concurring, we may say
‘So smiles the spring and so smiles lovely May.’